Hi devs, after listening to Amp Hour podcast ep 202 [1], interview With Brandon Harris from Electric Imp, which was impressive I heard something really alarming.
Whey were using Lua in their product previous to launch, but they were so strongly againgst shipping it with Lua because they realized that it would hold them down too much that they scrapped EVERYTHING one week before shipping and started looking for a better alternative. They found Squirrel [2], so first question that popped into my mind was - is there Squirrel for OpenWrt. And from what I have seen so far there is not. Has anybody used Squirrel? Would it make sense to look into it and would it be benificial to OpenWrt as a project to also switch from Lua to Squirrel? My sense is that it is not that critical because OpenWrt hardvare is so limited as one used by Electric Imp, but still it would be nice to have a more optimal language so that OpenWrt can ce used more in Internet Of Things arena... Cheers, Valent. [1] http://www.theamphour.com/202-an-interview-with-brandon-harris-impish-internet-iamatology/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_%28programming_language%29 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
