Poll: Should I merge lua profile PR?

[msbarry]

Should I merge PR #736 adds support for profiles written in lua using luaj?

Reasons to merge:

• gives people another option for writing custom profiles without compiling anything
• some people might prefer lua over java or yaml
• the vscode autocomplete/validation makes it easy to get started with even if you don't have much lua experience
• luaj runtime overhead is minimal, not as fast as faster than any other interpreted jvm language I've seen so far
• lua has full access to the java API, so it gets access to new functionality without any extra work

Reasons not to merge:

• luaj is essentially unmaintained, so we would be responsible for bug fixes/enhancements
• luaj errors are hard to debug compared to java exceptions
• developer experience is very similar to no-build java profiles
• tilemaker already lets you define profiles in lua and recent performance improvements make resource requirements similar to planetiler.