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by sient
Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: ProFi, a Lua profiler that works with LuaJIT.
Replies: 7
Views: 9510

Re: ProFi, a Lua profiler that works with LuaJIT.

This is fantastic and just the thing I was looking for. Didn't realize the debug library had such a handy hook. :neko:

I figured for profiling you would need to use the c api, but I guess not! Never bothered to really research it.
by sient
Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: Considering picking up Lua
Replies: 26
Views: 11615

Re: Considering picking up Lua

Lafolie wrote:. . .the only problems I can foresee with using Löve are OOP and network-functionality. . .
I'm actually going to disagree completely with these two statements. Here is why you want to avoid OOP as a beginner. Here is why Love rocks at network-functionality.
by sient
Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Considering picking up Lua
Replies: 26
Views: 11615

Re: Considering picking up Lua

Why do I almost exclusively see Lua referred to as a scripting language instead of a programming language? I know it can be embedded quite easily in other applications, but how good is it for writing applications alone? It seems to me that people only consider it for small pieces of embedded code. ...