Re: Bus Factor

Hello

>> "I think Lua as a language is so close to the point of perfection, that"

You said what I was going to say, Lua is designed to be lightweight and 
have small number of features that are designed and implemented carefully. 
That's why Lua is very stable, flexible and fast enough for many use cases.

Such principles in design + portability + being open source are what's 
necessary for a programming language to stay for decades. 

Language with implementations that die (no longer used/active) suffer from 
problems that Lua already avoid

I was happy to know/use Lua before creating the Ring programming language 
and apply some of the lessons that I learned from Lua design in the Ring 
language
Introduction — Ring 1.26.0 documentation 
<https://ring-lang.github.io/doc1.26/introduction.html#motivation-4>

In Ring community, I become satisfied that language could continue after 
me, once I watched many developers could understand/update Ring 
implementation

In Lua world, this is much easier and different implementations of the 
language (for better performance, or different goals) is a prove that this 
is a language that will continue and doesn't depend only on the original 
creator because they did the hardest parts right (lightweight & practical 
design).

Greetings,
Mahmoud

On Sunday, May 24, 2026 at 5:39:44 PM UTC+3 Andrey Dobrovolsky wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I think Lua as a language is so close to the point of perfection, that
> bus is too late,
> Yes, in our corner of the Universe all software is rotating in the
> endless and useless "new features" circle, but I guess Lua is from
> another Universe ))
>
> Best regards!
> -- Andrew
>
> нд, 24 трав. 2026 р. о 13:38 'Sainan' via lua-l <[email protected]> 
> пише:
> >
> > It's funny you titled this "bus factor" because it's not like the Lua 
> development is a big secret, as all information and skills *are* shared, 
> even with outsiders.
> >
> > In the end, it's just gonna be a question of who's gonna put in the 
> effort, and who's gonna win the "community consensus" as the successor, 
> which does not seem like a problem that needs proactive planning.
> >
> > -- Sainan
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