After 10 years and many projects, the greatest with 40k lines of code including a …

The fanaticism of Rust programmers are well known and off putting. Why, one of them just posted about it into a Lua thread. It couldn't be less relevant. Much as I don't have a hard choice between picking assembly and PHP for a task, Rust and Lua are just not in the same problem space.

I haven't used Rust, but lots of C++ — do you ever find the strongly-typed and compiler-driven approach constraining, compared to Lua? Like, in C++ if I want to change the API for something, I need to update a few different places (header, implementation, maybe some downstream typedefs, etc.), maybe recompile a library or two, then re-run the application, whereas in a more loosly-typed and "interpreted" language like Lua, I can rely on duck typing and such, make my edits and save, and the code is immediately live. The iteration cycle can be very short, if the system is built that way. Anyway, maybe I just come from the opposite end of the spectrum, so Lua feels like a breath of fresh air sometimes vs. writing everything in a stricter language. My project is also very amenable to that, though.

> knowing the details of heap vs stack, array vs hashmap, and explaining that to someone learning programming for the first time within a language that attempts to hide those details is frustrating These are implementation artifacts. Knowing how to program does not require any knowledge of them. > and my old tool looks like a toy. The great thing about toys is they are very easy to put down for a while and then pick back up again later with very little effort.

> So far I have spent 6 months in Rust and my old tool looks like a toy. How did I ever live without iterators, algebraic data types, the safety of a strong type system, and especially separate types for arrays and hashmaps for god sakes? I programmed in many languages with similar features (C#, Java, Swift, Objective-C) and programming in Lua is refreshing to me. In daytime I can deal with doing C# at office, but at home, Lua is more fun to me. Great for hobby projects. Would probably love programming full-time with Lua as well (if I could make money with game dev).