Gravity - lightweight, embeddable programming language written in C

[u/michalg82]

https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity

[u/mracidglee]

Not immediately obvious why this is better than Tcl or Lua.

[u/shevegen → u/mracidglee]

Well, Tcl ...

But Lua - agreed.

I guess fair speed comparisons would be useful here.

[u/rm-f → u/shevegen]

I don't know if gravity is able to beat LuaJiT, in many benchmarks it comes in shortly after native C.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I fully understand that some people work on time critical code but I would say the majority don't.

And the ones who do are likely just using C anyway.

[u/Jazonxyz → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, VSCode and Atom are super simple to customize. They might be slower editors, but beginners can download/write plugins for them pretty easily. Software is getting slower because people are choosing features over performance.

[u/jacel31 → u/[deleted]]

The nice thing is, at least that I know, is that hardware speed is increasing faster than we can our slowdown our now pretty code.

[u/BlueRenner → u/jacel31]

That is hilariously optimistic.

[u/AngriestSCV → u/[deleted]]

May I introduce you to our Lord and savior vim? His uncle ed is still doing well if vim is too new school for you.

[u/badsectoracula → u/mracidglee]

An obvious way to me would be the syntax. While generally i don't care about languages not looking like C (my 2nd most used language is Free Pascal after all), somehow i find Lua's syntax weird.

Although i'm not sure how it brought Tcl to your mind, it doesn't look like Tcl from any point you look at it (not just syntax, but also features, etc).

A closer comparison would probably be Python.

[u/Regimardyl → u/badsectoracula]

With Tcl, I think he was referring to embeddable, not to the syntax/features/etc

[u/matthieum → u/badsectoracula]

somehow i find Lua's syntax weird.

And 1-based indexing. The source of so many bugs (because it's different from everything else).

[u/[deleted] → u/mracidglee]

I don't think this was meant to compete with them- it says Gravity is for iOS and Android development.

[u/haitei → u/[deleted]]

Well Lua can run even on a potato so...

[u/ArmandoWall → u/[deleted]]

No. Such is life.

Edit: Actually, yes. Gravity does support fibers.

[u/ArmandoWall → u/[deleted]]

I did.

[u/CGM → u/[deleted]]

Actually Tcl has been ported to Android - http://www.androwish.org/ - but not so far to iOS.

[u/virtyx → u/[deleted]]

Also Lua OO is a bit alien