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> Lua is the only language I can truly say I love Why? I've worked with Lua before and to me it's not a bad language, but nothing special either. I'm honestly wondering.
It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
No web assembly?
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> Lua is the only language I can truly say I love Why? I've worked with Lua before and to me it's not a bad language, but nothing special either. I'm honestly wondering.
It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
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I wish Netscape had chosen Lua instead of bothering to invent JavaScript. Python would have also been much better than JavaScript, but Lua would have been perfect. But at least they didn't choose TCL, as Sun was pushing before they switched gears to Java after the Great TCL War. And personally, I would have preferred PostScript (which was the basis of NeWS, with a Smalltalk-like OOP system) or ScriptX (which was like…
> People who are confused about equality shouldn't design programming languages: This is a very dull criticism of JavaScript, everybody uses ===. While it's definitely true the language has some poor decisions (`with`, `==`, etc.). You can write JS without using any of these features (and almost everyone does). Infact, just using a decently strict ESLint config will get you most of the way there. It's controversial,…
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It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
> basically no confusing elements. the one confusing element - one-based indexing of arrays! that is something i found hard to adjust, as it makes off-by-one errors more prominent... but otherwise it's a nice language.
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It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
Why would Lua be significantly faster than Python? Isn't it an interpreted language too?
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It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
Why would Lua be significantly faster than Python? Isn't it an interpreted language too?
Probably someone else can shed light on exact numbers, but Lua is faster than Python.
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It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
Isn't it LuaJIT that's really fast? Last I remember reading about it, there was some version fragmentation going on with Lua advancing and LuaJIT stuck on an older version? (That was a long time ago, and I don't know what been happening since.)
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I wish Netscape had chosen Lua instead of bothering to invent JavaScript. Python would have also been much better than JavaScript, but Lua would have been perfect. But at least they didn't choose TCL, as Sun was pushing before they switched gears to Java after the Great TCL War. And personally, I would have preferred PostScript (which was the basis of NeWS, with a Smalltalk-like OOP system) or ScriptX (which was like…
> People who are confused about equality shouldn't design programming languages: This is a very dull criticism of JavaScript, everybody uses ===. While it's definitely true the language has some poor decisions (`with`, `==`, etc.). You can write JS without using any of these features (and almost everyone does). Infact, just using a decently strict ESLint config will get you most of the way there. It's controversial,…
A perfect example: I read hey there’s a cool simpler way to write small anonymous functions called arrow syntax. Nice let me try it, hm it’s not working —> google —> arrow functions have no access to ‘this’.
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It has all the power of something like Python, but is much faster and with far less cruft and basically no confusing elements. You’re given a small set of tools and it’s incredibly easy to build off them.
> basically no confusing elements. the one confusing element - one-based indexing of arrays! that is something i found hard to adjust, as it makes off-by-one errors more prominent... but otherwise it's a nice language.
But that said, I'd prefer that Lua had 0-based indexes, simply because that's what most other languages have, not because it's superior.