Re: Lua in-kernel (lbuf library)

[Lourival Vieira Neto <lourival.neto%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi Artem,

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Artem Falcon <lomka%gero.in@localhost> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:01:29PM -0300, Lourival Vieira Neto wrote:
>> > > Also, having to switch mentally between zero-based arrays in the
>> > > kernel C
>> > > code and 1-based arrays in the Lua code make my head ache.
>
> Above this well-discussed inconvenience there is a thing which may hurt
> more. It's the Lua's stack-based C API and all the stack composition
> pottering it imposes on you. This may be customary for those having an
> experience with concatenative languages, but it'll be a source of errors
> for the others. See [1]'s "Stack based API is harder" for more on it.
>
> [1] http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011/why-not-lua
>
> --
> dukzcry

Here is another nice discussion about C APIs of scripting languages:
www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/jucs-c-apis.pdf

Regards,
-- 
Lourival Vieira Neto