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by mrkeen 533 days ago
I did something similar. C++ game engine with embedded Lua. I brought it to a C++ job interview. The interviewer kept asking how certain things worked. After a while I realised I was only clicking into Lua source code to show what was going on.

He said something like, "You know you can just write C++, right?"

Did not get the job :)

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Hopefully the interviewer did not cut you out because of the project, because there's many valid reasons why someone would use Lua: - "no need to use C++ for non-performance critical sections of job." - "The nature of the game does not require high levels of optimizations to implement the game" - "This is just the MVP, lua lets me iterate more quickly" (totally lying, you're totally going to ship the game as is)

i.e. "why many word when few do job"