Many people are saying that AI will make software faster by rewriting it in faster languages, but this isn’t generally true. Most programs cannot be…
  • pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Lua is directly comparable to Python, as it’s incredible at quasi-interactive scripting. Python actually fits better when startup time doesn’t matter, while a Lua script can start and finish a dozen times before a Python process just turns on.