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Pros of Lua
- Fast learning curve41
- Very easy to embed in C programs26
- Efficient memory usage26
- Open source20
- Good for game scripting19
- Pretty simple to learn9
- Quick to code8
- Simple Language8
- Syntax is amazing7
- Supported in most game engines7
- D6
- Coroutines2
- Can be used for a wide variety of development1
Pros of PHP
- Large community951
- Open source817
- Easy deployment765
- Great frameworks487
- The best glue on the web387
- Continual improvements235
- Good old web185
- Web foundation145
- Community packages135
- Tool support125
- Used by wordpress35
- Excellent documentation34
- Used by Facebook29
- Because of Symfony23
- Dynamic Language21
- Cheap hosting17
- Easy to learn16
- Awesome Language and easy to implement14
- Very powerful web language14
- Fast development14
- Composer13
- Flexibility, syntax, extensibility12
- Because of Laravel12
- Easiest deployment9
- Readable Code8
- Fast8
- Most of the web uses it7
- Worst popularity quality ratio7
- Short development lead times7
- Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments7
- Faster then ever6
- Open source and large community5
- Simple, flexible yet Scalable5
- I have no choice :(4
- Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)4
- Is like one zip of air4
- Open source and great framework4
- Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework4
- Great developer experience4
- Easy to use and learn4
- Cheap to own4
- Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks4
- Walk away2
- Used by STOMT2
- Hard not to use2
- Fault tolerance2
- Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps2
- Interpreted at the run time2
- FFI2
- Safe the planet2
- It can get you a lamborghini1
- Secure1
- Simplesaml1
- Bando1
- Secure0
Pros of Rust
- Guaranteed memory safety143
- Fast130
- Open source87
- Minimal runtime75
- Pattern matching70
- Type inference63
- Algebraic data types56
- Concurrent56
- Efficient C bindings46
- Practical43
- Best advances in languages in 20 years37
- Safe, fast, easy + friendly community32
- Fix for C/C++30
- Stablity25
- Zero-cost abstractions24
- Closures23
- Great community20
- Extensive compiler checks20
- No NULL type18
- Async/await18
- Completely cross platform: Windows, Linux, Android15
- No Garbage Collection15
- Great documentations14
- High-performance14
- Super fast12
- Generics12
- High performance12
- Safety no runtime crashes11
- Guaranteed thread data race safety11
- Fearless concurrency11
- Macros11
- Compiler can generate Webassembly10
- Helpful compiler10
- Easy Deployment9
- RLS provides great IDE support9
- Prevents data races9
- Real multithreading8
- Painless dependency management8
- Good package management7
- Support on Other Languages5
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Cons of Lua
Cons of PHP
Cons of Rust
Cons of Lua
- Nooby4
- Not widespread2
- D1
- Python0
Cons of PHP
- So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find22
- Inconsistent API16
- Fragmented community8
- Not secure6
- No routing system3
- Hard to debug3
- Old2
Cons of Rust
- Hard to learn26
- Ownership learning curve23
- Unfriendly, verbose syntax11
- Variable shadowing4
- High size of builded executable4
- Many type operations make it difficult to follow4
- No jobs3
- Use it only for timeoass not in production1
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What is Lua?
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
What is PHP?
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
What is Rust?
Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory.
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What are some alternatives to Lua, PHP, and Rust?
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Arduino
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
Golang
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.