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Lua Tables - The Swiss Army Knife of Data Structures (slicker.me)

submitted 4 days ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right but it's fast(ish) in spite of that. It would still be better with separate types.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Weird choice of lifestyle to complain about the two fastest scripting languages being ‘fast-ish’. While you complain, the world is using Lua for embedded scripts and game programming, and PHP for the web.

People straight up write libraries in Lua instead of C, because the performance difference is unnoticeable. But apparently it's only ‘fastish’.