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wisty on Aug 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that c...

Not everyone thinks that Lua is great. It's certainly a nice language, and it's popular in some niches, but some people like implicit variable declarations, classes (at times), and comprehensions.

Also, I can see it compiling into JavaScript as well. I'm not sure if that would be a good idea, or a really horrible one, though.

jacques_chester on Aug 11, 2011 [–]

It's not an acronym, it's an ordinary noun: Lua.

My main grudge against Lua purely as a language is that it has implicit global variables. I can live with the rest of the idiosyncracies.

My main grudge in day-to-day programming is the ecosystem, it's very small. It's a chicken-and-egg thing.

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