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"Lua is super cool. Lua is great."
-- The Primeagen while being interviewed by @BrodieOnLinux
#Lua #vim #neovim #programming
https://invidious.einfachzocken.eu/watch?v=9SQXv8GFVLM
ThePrimeagen On Vim Superiority
If I get a chance to talk to ThePrimeagen I'm obviously going to have to ask him about why vim is so great and why he started using it in the first place. Full Episode: https://youtu.Tech Over Tea | Invidious
know it's not a fair comparison, but relative to JavaScript, I thoroughly appreciate that Lua moves slowly as a language. Severely reduces maintenance burden and it's more conducive to longer-applicable content (especially important in the context of learning).
The philosophy is probably best summarized by Roberto's talk, How Much Does It Cost
Lua Workshop 2017: How much does it cost? - Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio / Lua.org)
How much does a feature cost in a programming language? Frequently, when people propose new features for a software, the most common metric is lines of code....YouTube
i though i needed some trig function, i typed some reference points into a graphing calculator, and started looking for a function that matched...
after a lot of finding nothing that was even close, i found an exact match for all my reference points...
after rewriting it in lua, i finally had it:
`-(2^(-absn)-1)/2*n/absn+0.5`
why is this so complicated...
#programming #gamedev #lua