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@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ R has a warm place in my heart from back in the day, and it has predefined funct
### Lua
I was also really pleased with Lua. I liked the simplicity and elegance, and lack of warts. And coming from javascript, I appreciated that the program did not fail silently, but rather gave me useful errors, like:
I was also really pleased with Lua. I liked the simplicity. And coming from javascript, I appreciated that the program did not fail silently, but rather gave me useful errors, like:
```
lua samples.lua
@ -111,9 +111,16 @@ stack traceback:
make: *** [makefile:14: run] Error 1
```
I also appreciated the speedup when using the LuaJIT interpreter.
I also appreciated the speedup when using the LuaJIT interpreter. You can install it with commands similar to
Overall I'm thinking that a combination of lua at least for scripting and ¿nim/C/tbd?
```
git clone https://luajit.org/git/luajit.git
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -sf luajit-2.1.0-beta3 /usr/local/bin/luajit
```
Overall I'm thinking that a combination of lua at least for scripting and ¿nim/C/tbd? for more serious programs could be quite powerful.
### Overall thoughts