QuillMeantTen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Greetings, fellow monks
I have been musing over the idea of learning a new programming language for about a week and I think I have settled on Lua.
Main reason is for scripting things such as Nmap or Snort, I know that many video games enable modding by embedding Lua but that's not my main use case.
After reading this I found some of my questions already answered, but here are others:
You might recall how I wondered, some time ago, about perl performance and how to improve it by rewriting parts of a perl script in C. Someone suggested to me the excellent FFI::Platypus but I mainly understood that before going down that road I might first want to be exhaustive in my benchmarking and profiling efforts, have a good look at my algorithms under the harshest light and THEN do it.
What I came here to ask today is kinda related:
- What is to be gained from embedding lua inside a perl script?
- Do lua coroutines provide anything useful when used in a dominantly Perl context?
(Useful could be something to gain in maintainability, performance, scalability...) -
Why isn't perl embedded in applications as often as lua is (especially since TinyPerl is the same size)?
Thanks for your time reading me.
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Re: it's scripts all the way down!
by perlfan (Vicar) on Mar 15, 2016 at 14:40 UTC | |
by QuillMeantTen (Friar) on Mar 16, 2016 at 08:11 UTC | |
Re: it's scripts all the way down!
by perlfan (Vicar) on Mar 16, 2016 at 15:00 UTC |