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Do you agree with edubart's runtime vs. compile time distinctions between Nelua and Terra?

I was interested in Terra a while back, but it didn't seem to get a lot of traction. This three-year-old critique put the nail in the coffin for me:

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/a-rant-on-terra/



That was somewhat of an entertaining read.

> Terra is C if you replaced the preprocessor with Lua.

This is what is written on the tin.

PUC made there own version of Terra

Pallene http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/Gualandi-2020-SCP.pd...

https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3inzGGFefg

This is a good writeup on all the Alt-Luas https://injuly.in/blog/gsoc/




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