On May 17, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Jeremy Henty wrote:

> On 2007-05-15, jeff_alexander_44 / yahoo.com
> <jeff_alexander_44 / yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> The only reasons for using lua are sheer technical ones: ... What is
>> absolutely needed in the game software industry is a better lua.
>
> I'm surprised to hear this, can you say more?  I looked at Lua
> recently and I was very impressed: a clean, simple language, proper
> lexical closure and garbage collection, and the metatables feature is
> very powerful.  What's wrong with Lua that the game software industry
> needs something better?

The one time I really needed Lua, the lack of bit manipulation  
operators being built into the language was a major minus.  It just  
ends up being a little too minimalist for me at times.

James Edward Gray II