Re: Lua versus any other programming language

2015-08-02 Thread Uli Schlachter
Hi, Others have answered enough things, I guess, and this is all a bike-shedding exercise anyway. I just have one question: Am 31.07.2015 um 22:56 schrieb Alexis BRENON: [...] - No multithreading/multi-CPU support (only coroutines) [...] Which language really has this? Even C officially

Re: Lua versus any other programming language

2015-08-02 Thread Alexis BRENON
@Sam : Personnaly, I never tried to embed Python, but I know some projects who do it : XBMC, Blender I don't know a lot different programming language, but as far as I know Lua is easy but not widely known. Nevertheless, I agree, it's syntax is pretty nice (even if it could be improved). I don't

Re: Lua versus any other programming language

2015-08-02 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Alexis BRENON brenon.ale...@gmail.com wrote: @Oon-Ee : I don't think that mixing two DE/WM is a good idea. I give a look to i3 doc, the main config file doesn't seems to be written in Python, it should be a quite 'expert' functionnality. Nevertheless, I LOVE

thoughts on substituting Lua with LuaJIT?

2015-08-02 Thread Kevin Owens
Would it be possible to substitute Lua with LuaJIT in awesome? Would there be any performance benefit? Thanks, Kevin -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.