I’ve been looking at using lua for something like this: basically, users will be able to program robots in my lab (biotech) to do things, and I need a scripting language I can easily embed and control the runtime of in the larger system.
Lua is theoretically better in… almost every way, except everyone in bio uses python. So it could allow more easy modification of LLM generated scripts (not worried about the libraries because I mostly want to limit them: the scripts are mainly to just run robots, and you can have them webhook out if you need complicated stuff)
My question would be: would running a python sandbox vs a lua sandbox actually be appreciably better? Not sure yet, but will have to investigate with this new package (since it has Go bindings!)
Curious given you looked at both why you considered Lua to be better. I'd like to use Lua to teach freshmen and I need some arguments as to why it's better than Python.
Much better embedability and much easier to make it safely embedded. Doesn't require a wasm compilation, just can be in raw C, and that lua can directly integrate with host functions and vice versa - something even these wasm implementations struggle with.
I’ve been looking at using lua for something like this: basically, users will be able to program robots in my lab (biotech) to do things, and I need a scripting language I can easily embed and control the runtime of in the larger system.
Lua is theoretically better in… almost every way, except everyone in bio uses python. So it could allow more easy modification of LLM generated scripts (not worried about the libraries because I mostly want to limit them: the scripts are mainly to just run robots, and you can have them webhook out if you need complicated stuff)
My question would be: would running a python sandbox vs a lua sandbox actually be appreciably better? Not sure yet, but will have to investigate with this new package (since it has Go bindings!)