[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

[Philip TAYLOR]

Well, you could always write your own JavaScript interpreter
in Lua and get the best of both worlds :-)

Martin Schröder wrote:
bably not. IIRC the binaries where around 75 KB (Lua) and
> 750 KB(JS). Compare this with 1 MB for a recent Knuthian TeX
> binary (on Linux) and 2 MB for pdfTeX.
>
> JS was simply a behemoth to pull in compared to Lua.