OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria vs Lua

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Aug 04, 2004
• 1007 views

Jean-Francois Soucaille wrote:
> 
> Does anybody has compared Euphoria and Lua (from PUC in Rio)?
> They have a lot in common and mainly differ by names rather by concepts:
> Euphoria has sequence, Lua has table etc...

Yes, I use Lua. The syntax is very similar to Euphoria, and there are 
several features which are implemented better than Euphoria, IMO.

> It seems that Lua is a bit slower, probably due to the uniqueness of type (no
> distinction
> between 
> integers and other 'atoms'). There are also some very interesting concepts in
> Lua as
> the metatables.

Depends. Lua is faster than Euphoria if your program does much writing
to the screen (The Linux version, at least)

Lua seems to be more difficult to link to libraries. For example, 
I couldn't find a Lua/GTK package anywhere.

Irv