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		shakna 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I chose Lua for this blog Having run Lua on a GameBoy Advance, not that fiddly. At worst, compile it all yourself.

rcarmo 38 days ago [–]

Targeting a specific platform is easy. Making sure your luarocks builds work across different Linux distros and architectures, not so much...

shakna 38 days ago | [–]

Absolutely agree.

But... For dev work on my own server? I am targeting a specific platform.

rcarmo 37 days ago | | [–]

Yes, but if you develop on one arch/distro and deploy in another...

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