Comment by RHSeeger
3 years ago
Tcl is my go-to embedded language. I tried Lua a while back but butted heads up against it's "just use a table as a list" idea (that didn't work quite right; but that was a long time ago) and became frustrated with it.
libtcl8.6.so is 1.8MiB on my desktop, and liblua5.1.so.5.1.5 is 186KiB.
Maybe there are ways to shrink libtcl or cut pieces out, but that's quite a difference.
I've found that for most of my tasks the order of things is not terribly important. I suppose that if I really needed this I could add my own ordered list data type to Lua.