Comment by tel

It’s been a minute since I used my mlua integration. I recall more packaging difficulty, investigating LuaJIT and Luau for a while. I had to make more decisions around my API, whether it was OO or a package, what libraries to allow. When introducing my domain types, there were more ways to fail and more subtle documentation to read and grok.

Nothing was hard, but Rhai was easier.

If I were to write a system in my embedded trading strategy language, if I cared about extensibility and composition, maybe Lua’s complexity would begin to pay its way. But I’m not, I just want simple, hot-reloadable logic to drive some fast Rust code.