On 13.03.2015 13:23, Erik Huelsmann wrote: > > > > These days, I suppose we'd be looking at something like Go, > which can > > be linked with C/C++ and also natively export functions that can be > > called from C/C++. > > As far as I can see, Go always comes with Garbage Collection > instead of a deterministic memory management. > > Also, as far as I can see, Go does not go as far as Rust with what > the compiler can check at compiletime. > > > On the other hand, I see on rust-lang that the current state of Rust > is 1.0.0-alpha2 where Lua has 22 years of experience and development.
Lua is not open source by any reasonable definition. The Lua devs intentionally do not give even read-only access to their source repository; they only post tarballs, if and when it suits them. That pretty much closes this topic in my opinion. http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-06/msg00407.html -- Brane
