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netghost on July 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM [video]

If you want a fast dynamic language, take a look at Lua. It's surprisingly fast, especially LuaJIT, and pretty straight forward (almost boring really). The main downside is that there isn't the breadth of community around it.

cppsnob on July 30, 2011 [–]

Lua's threading is just as broken as Python or Ruby. Maybe even more so.

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