On 18.03.2015 10:36, Branko Čibej wrote: > 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
Also http://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.9 > -- Brane
