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Jessehk · Apr 14th, 2008, 8:08 PM

I had heard about Lua through an article and I had never done any extending or embedding before so I thought I'd try something.

Lua is extremely light, both in terms of memory footprint and standard libraries. For my simple Arch Linux utility, I first extended Lua by writing a library of filesystem functions for the language, then embedded it in order to write the majority of the "logic" which I then wrapped together with C and built/packaged with autotools.

I don't know how useful it all was, but it was definitely very educational.

Apr 14th, 2008, 8:08 PM	#6
Jessehk The Oblivious One Join Date: May 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 630 Rep Power: 4	Re: 'C'oo'P'eration! I had heard about Lua through an article and I had never done any extending or embedding before so I thought I'd try something. Lua is extremely light, both in terms of memory footprint and standard libraries. For my simple Arch Linux utility, I first extended Lua by writing a library of filesystem functions for the language, then embedded it in order to write the majority of the "logic" which I then wrapped together with C and built/packaged with autotools. I don't know how useful it all was, but it was definitely very educational. __________________ Dr. Zoidberg: [ecstatic] I'm going to a movie... with FRIENDS!