[NTG-context] Some questions about lua && context

[Hans Hagen]

Aleksandar Lazic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I have looked into luatex and read the FAQ
> http://www.luatex.org/faq.html
>
> Just for my curiosity, have you looked into neko?!
>
> http://www.nekovm.org/
>
> I don't know when you have decide to go to lua and if then neko was out.
>
> Thanks to satisfied my curiosity ;- )
>   
the choice for lua was made purely on my experience with perl, ruby and ... lua (embedded into skype) 

one big advantage of lua is that it has a long history, has reached a point of stability, is developped in an academic atmosphere, is rather clean, very lightweight, etc 

anyhow, the decision has been made (after the decision already several alternatives have been proposed -) 

Hans 

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