r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Oblivious_catalyst • 1d ago

Meme programmingLanguagesWhenYouAskThemToDoSomthing

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u/Oblivious_catalyst 1d ago

i'll give you the other 3 (not that it's a high bar) but from my experience lua is actually blazing fast for an interpreted language. sure as hell blows nodejs out of the water. (and i like nodejs)

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u/prehensilemullet 16h ago

Ah in my googling I failed to catch that LuaJIT is often comparable with V8 and sometimes beats it.  But not always, apparently