Re: Tcl vs. Lua
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Re: Tcl vs. Lua

From: Ian Bell <ruffrecords@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 14:51:15 CET

Lisa Pearlson wrote:

> Thank you.. This was very helpful.. it tells me I shouldn't bother with
> Lua, .. or do I?
> They say it's used a lot for "Games programming". What makes it suitable
> for games programming, other than it's cross platform features? Doesn't
> cross platform usually means it can't take advantage of hardware
> specifics?
>

I suspect SDL is used a lot more for games programming and I think you will
find a Tcl extension that supports it on the wiki.

Ian
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:47 2006