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
Received on 2015-03-18 10:45:04 CET