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Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work?

From Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>
Subject Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work?
Date 2013-07-10 09:15 +0200
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Christian Gollwitzer, 10.07.2013 09:03:
> http://www.lua.org/
> 
> Very compact (a static binary is about ~200K), clean synatx, relatively
> fast. OTOH, the standard library is of course not so extensive as for Tcl
> or Python.

"not so extensive" is a rather bold understatement. ISTM that most projects
that use Lua build their own eco-system around it, or integrate Lua into
their existing eco-system, with the obvious drawbacks for code reuse across
different projects and user bases.

Stefan

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Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? David T. Ashley <dashley@gmail.com> - 2013-07-09 21:29 -0400
  Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-09 21:44 -0400
    Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? David T. Ashley <dashley@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 21:14 -0400
  Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2013-07-10 08:41 +0200
  Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-07-10 09:03 +0200
    Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-07-10 09:15 +0200
    Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-07-12 08:52 +0200
  Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-10 14:15 +0000
  Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Johann Hibschman <jhibschman@gmail.com> - 2013-07-10 14:38 -0500
    Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? David T. Ashley <dashley@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 21:19 -0400
      Re: Best Scripting Language for Embedded Work? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-07-12 06:17 +0200

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