Re: on Perl

On 16/04/2024 16:49, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:58:49 -0000 (UTC)
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
being replaced with Lua now.

 So moving from one language hardly anyone uses to another that hardly anyone
uses. You can't deny the consistency.
 

Lots of people use Lua.  It is very popular as a small scripting language, and as a language embedded in other programs - you only need two or three C source files linked into your code to make Lua available, and it's quite easy to expose C functions as Lua functions.
It is extremely popular in gaming - including for player scripting in Minecraft.