❦ 22 décembre 2015 16:49 +0100, Julien Danjou <jul...@danjou.info> :
>> Why Lua has been chosen to be the language for AwesomeWM configuration ? > > It's a long story, that I will talk about during a talk at the next > FOSDEM in 2016, in the Lua and Guile devroom, for those of you who are > interested. > > To summarize, the easiest way to have a higher-level-than-C programming > language embedded in 2008 (for a newbie like me) was Lua. Plenty of > documentation, really easy syntax and integration system (stack based). > Compared to the the state of Python back then for example, which looked > way more… obscure. > > I had no idea that the awesome system and API would grow that far, and > while being neat for little programs and algorithms, writing large > framework and more advanced stuff _can_ be a pain in Lua. > > It now seems obvious it should have been Lisp (probably Guile), but > well, history is history, and Lua is probably good enough! :) You also wrote: https://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011/why-not-lua -- Use the fundamental control flow constructs. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger) -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
