Comment on Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compilerparentComments−finnw14yBut if they are developers why would they not want to modify their own C code (to add an embeddable JS interpreter?)−aaronblohowiak14yjs interpreters are not as friendly as lua for embedding.−zhemao14yExactly, I've worked with the Lua C API before, it was fairly easy to use. I've looked at the V8 API before. Compared to Lua, it is far more complicated.
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But if they are developers why would they not want to modify their own C code (to add an embeddable JS interpreter?)
js interpreters are not as friendly as lua for embedding.
Exactly, I've worked with the Lua C API before, it was fairly easy to use. I've looked at the V8 API before. Compared to Lua, it is far more complicated.