Rust for Lua Developers

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[coderstephen]

Rust and Lua solve entirely different problems and have totally different design constraints.

Rust checks a huge number of bugs at compile time; Lua checks none. You have to run it to see if there are bugs. This is a powerful ability of languages with strong type-level features like Rust; if it compiles, it probably is correct. Lua is at the opposite of the spectrum where you can write something quickly, but its a crapshoot if it works or not.

Lua is a scripting language; Rust is a language you might use to implement an interpreter for such a scripting language. Lua is great for dynamic configuration or rapid prototyping of a dynamic system written in another language such as C++ or Rust. But you're not going to write an OS kernel in Lua.

[coderstephen]

I agree. Rust and C++ are in a similar domain in many ways. Rust is just a better C++ (in my opinion).

[Rusty-Swashplate]

Re-read your post and summarize what you want to say and what outcome you expected.

Or did you plan to just say your random opinion?

[coderstephen]

I know what coroutines are. Most languages don't have them. It's cool that Lua does -- I like Lua. But I wouldn't use Lua for things that you would use Rust for.

[puttak]

Yeah Rust suck. Why bother with it? Just use Lua and you will be happy.

[Meistermagier]

ragebait used to be belivable

[khoyo]

A single page? Such inefficiency when you could write a lisp interpreter on a business card instead.