alt.hn

7/24/2026 at 5:47:03 PM

Build Systems Discussion

https://civboot.github.io/blog/2026-07-24-build-systems.html

by theanonymousone

7/24/2026 at 6:50:16 PM

Unrelated but I'm curious about their choice of programming language. It doesn't look like they're writing their own Lua interpreter anyway, so it feels like they could have selected a different language.

by Kinrany

7/24/2026 at 8:25:16 PM

Author here, what question do you have? I'll eventually be writing my own Lua interpreter but the whole stack is designed to (and currently does) bootstrap from standard Lua 5.4 (or 5.5)

by vitiral

7/26/2026 at 3:42:05 PM

One thing that could be different between a programming language and everything else is that by writing in Lua, you're committing to the whole language surface. Whereas I imagine with other things you have the option to make your own design choices?

by Kinrany

7/24/2026 at 5:50:19 PM

Hey, author here - thanks for posting!

by vitiral

7/24/2026 at 6:17:07 PM

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