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Been working on my programming language https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz for 4 years now (with some down periods). Currently mainly working on the tooling: LSP, DAP and format…

When my son was in the last stages of leukemia, Bluey was on repeat all day. He was completely immersed in that world and we, his parents were there with him too. Now, 5 years afte…

Fair point

It’s really hard (impossible?) to have a type system with user defined types and do without a declarative top level.

This means the language will never coerce things for you implicitly. Booleans are true and false not 1 and 0 or “true” and “false” etc.

They are more like structs with methods. There’s no inheritance only protocols (interfaces) you can conform to. Buzz is not an OOP language.

Safety pin? No its an astronaut and some stars.

Author here. A few points make buzz a “scripting language” in my view: - runs in a VM - garbage collected - high level - “simple” meaning there’s only a handful of concepts to unde…

It’s planned yes

Lua has the same strategy as Buzz around numbers see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#2.1

Exposing how? If you mean documentation, Buzz as not yet its reference manual but it'll definitely be there.

I'm not excluding the idea to allow the user to choose between the two. But the language must remain simple and relatively high level so I'm wary of going down that road.

I think I list a good amount of reasons to use Lua. The focus of the article is far from being fixated on JS being bad.

This really is not a good argument. You can still write php like in 98, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn modern php if you want to work ever.

I’m not talking about frameworks. I’m talking about ES5/6/2016/2017/7/8 ... which all add new concepts and complexity.

Reading the sources I used to search for the correct term, I think I may have been fooled by ancient greek allophones. Ex. : ὁ ἄγγελος /ho áŋgelos/ Anyway like I said, too late to …

I’m talking about the cognitive load of the language. Learning JS is a real complex task whereas learning Lua is not. Learning JS as is is hard since its moving so fast. I think no…

It’s stable relative to JS which is a nightmare in this regard.

Yes it’s feggari but I think that with two gammas, it’s pronounced fengari. Could be wrong I’m not greek. But it’s too late to change :)

I think you misunderstand the aim of the article. It’s not a case and point against js but for Lua in the browser. When I list positive points of Lua, I’m not implying they don’t e…