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  1. #LuaLang is probably my fav imperative language and #RacketLang or #SchemeLang my fav functional one. Can't decide between Racket and Scheme, I want to like Scheme more but I have much more experience with Racket.

  2. #LuaLang is probably my fav imperative language and #RacketLang or #SchemeLang my fav functional one. Can't decide between Racket and Scheme, I want to like Scheme more but I have much more experience with Racket.

  3. #LuaLang is probably my fav imperative language and #RacketLang or #SchemeLang my fav functional one. Can't decide between Racket and Scheme, I want to like Scheme more but I have much more experience with Racket.

  4. #adventOfCode day 1 in #LuaLang

    gitlab.cs.washington.edu/fidel

    • PC: 1 ms
    • Raspberry Pi 2: 70 ms
    • #hp200lx: Error after 2 minutes. I wonder if the garbage collector settings need to be tuned to avoid memory exhaustion.
  5. My #adventOfCode solutions this year will be in #LuaLang and will be ranked by the smallest machine they run on:

  6. Putting Lua through its paces. Here's Advent of Code 2024, Day 13, running on all my favorite hardware that I had on hand, through the power of Lua.

    Ryzen 5 9600X modern desktop - 1 ms.

    HP 200LX, 8 MHz 186, 640 KB RAM available to Lua: 62 seconds.

    TI-92+, 12 MHz 68000, 64 KB RAM available to Lua: 65 seconds.

    "Write once, run anywhere".

    #retrocomputing #lualang #ticalc #ti92 #hp200lx