Re: [GD-General] Off the shelf scripting languages

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

>Unfortunately Lua on consoles doesn't seem viable because of the=
 GC.

It's viable, just a pain in the ass.  Someone else posted that=
 the 
only way to really use it in that environment is to preload 
everything and avoid all allocations and frees during a 
mission/level, then clean everything out between levels.

Python suffers from a similar problem even with refcounting, e.g.=
 
release cascades.

I would imagine patching Lua to avoid any GC at all would be 
relatively easy and might even be a good compromise.  

Now, for something with an extended life you're going to have to=
 find 
a decent real-time GC implementation.

Brian