The issue is that these advantages do not outweigh the ubiquitous nature of JavaScript. If I already need to learn all of those JS quirks, why learn Lua too?
In my case, because Awesome is a nice window manager.
Although on this theory, I should really have learned some Haskell by now. And yet. Every trip to the xmonadrc is a fresh glimpse at the depths of my own ignorance.
In my case, because Awesome is a nice window manager.