Alfred vs. Beeftext vs. JavaScript vs. Lua Comparison Chart

Beeftext makes your typing life easier. An open-source text substitution tool for Windows. Combos are text shortcuts associated with substitution text. Perform your combos in any application. Beeftext works in any application that supports copy/paste. Beeftext is made for you. Beeftext allows you to define combos. A Combo associates a short word that you are unlikely to type in a normal situation (a keyword) with a piece of long or complex text you often need to type (a snippet). From now on, every time you type the keyword, in any text area of any application that supports copy/paste (99.9% of them do), the combo is triggered and Beeftext automatically replaces the keyword with its associated snippet. Thanks to Unicode encoding, this text can be in any language, using any kind of character, even exotic ones. Text substitution tools are not new. Beeftext is free, as in free beer, and contains no ads or malware.

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has a deserved reputation for performance. To claim to be "as fast as Lua" is an aspiration of other scripting languages. Several benchmarks show Lua as the fastest language in the realm of interpreted scripting languages. Lua is fast not only in fine-tuned benchmark programs, but in real life too. Substantial fractions of large applications have been written in Lua.