26 Dec
2008
26 Dec
'08
3:02 p.m.
2008/12/26 Mohamed Bana
why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant is
Lua is not the implementation language of luaTeX; check your facts. luaTeX started as pdfTeX + lua; ant is a typesetting engine written in OCaml, which is a completely different approach.
far as i'm aware, dynamic languages are generally much slower than those that are statically typed.
FUD. :-)
and i'm not trolling, i just want to know why. please share your thoughts.
Please check your facts. Best Martin