Lua

“I've used Lua very successfully in many commercial projects, so I'm quite convinced of its power”

“I ran into enough issues with it's "everything is a table" design that I stopped using it.”

“if I were in the market for an extension glue language today, I'd reach for Lua first”

“You can learn a clean & fun language (lua) and its JIT is maybe/probably running laps around something like GDScript”

“it's simple to learn and I can use that knowledge for things other than just configuring my editor”

“Lua is good for embedding but the language itself is terrible for LLM usage (too much dynamic typing)”

“Lua is a very small language though and sandboxing it to specific global functions is trivial”

“For readability, `then` allows splitting with newlines very long conditional expressions”

“if your config typically has some logic in it, it makes sense to go for an embedded scripting language”

“Lua is intended to be a embedded language, so good for Interop, but also also high level and easy to use.”

“If you drop-in replaced JS today with Lua, you'd have a conceptually similar language with a lot of warts chopped off.”

“I avoid a language without JSON parsing officially supported because I need that frequently”

“its really quite unfair on the language and those who have used it quite well to do big things”

“embedding Lua with support for user supplied libraries is less effort than embedding a whole Python/JS runtime”

“It's a design choice to have a language as small as possible while still offering cool tools.”

“It offers just enough functionality while not making it overly complicated to make basic things.”

“Lua is so small and simple (but not simplistic) that you can keep it completely in your head.”

“Lua is garbage collected, dynamically typed, strays far from standard syntax patterns, and has less existing tooling than C.”

“small and focused and well-organized enough to (at least roughly) understand what's going on at the various layers”

“Maybe because you can fit the whole language spec on a single sheet of paper and adding more advanced features is pretty easy.”

“Lua is just a small C library so the style remains very friendly to those who like C with classes.”

“But I think it's rather infuriating, all those points could be less relevant if the tooling for "real" programming languages was better.”

“lua is #2 behind javascript/typescript's #1 when it comes to scripting language LSP stuff”

“Which is imho the superior scripting language just constrained by a smaller userbase.”

“The language is very minimal, memory safe, and has Pascal-like syntax just like Delphi.”

“I think the problem with lua was that there is a lack of libraries & projects regarding it so this might actually help it”

“You can compile and run pretty much any version of Lua on XP with VS 2010 or lcc and it works just fine”

“Conflation of arrays and maps, conflation of `nil` and empty (both in tables and in function arguments), and the perennially-unpopular 1-based indexing.”

“Lua syntax is pretty good for DSL (domain specific language) cases / configuration definitions.”

“incredibly niche (but otherwise make-it-or-break-it) fact that PUC-Rio is and likely always will be strict C89”

“It's good to have a simple, stable language that works and that you can depend on to remain sane for the forseeable future.”

“Metatables are pretty powerful, and "everything is in a table" made it super easy to do hot reloading.”

“it makes sense as an optimization within the context of Lua's design goals of being lightweight and fast”

“Because you are constantly shifting across the C/Lua barrier, 1-based indices becomes a disaster”

“The only thing I dislike about Lua is the 1-indexing. I know they had reasons for it but it always caused issues.”

“The first language I learned was Lua, and because of that it seems to have a special place in my heart”

“Lua only departs from norms if you’ve had a very narrow experience with other programming languages.”

“that was surprising to me in Lua. I adapted to it, but it did cause a little bit of awkwardness”

“good thing about lua is you avoid the headache of people asking for NPM package support”

“Lua does it--exceptions at the language level, and either setjmp/longjmp or C++ exceptions in the VM implementation.”