i’ve written probably north of a million lines of production js, maybe around 100,000 lines of production ruby, and about 300 lines of production lua. lua is a fun language and i think a much better fit than JS for technical reasons (who has a js engine that is both fast and embeds well? nobody), but i am certainly more productive in those other languages where i have more experience.

lua array index starting at 1 gets me at least once whenever i sit down to write a library for my nvim or wezterm.

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llimllib 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> who has a js engine that is both fast and embeds well? nobody

Fabrice Bellard! https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs

(I agree with you, just wanted to note this super neat project)

	▲	jitl 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		quickjs/mquickjs are good at embedding but nowhere close to luajit in terms of speed. (i have some experience with quickjs https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten) as an aside i’m curious how quickjs/mquickjs compares to mruby in speed and size. something to ponder