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you don't realize why _javascript_ is popular? Ok :) But that's a tangent anyways.People have forever criticized js for it's lack of type safety and squishy syntax.The thing that's made js way better to deal with is the tooling. But even then, there is a large rise in things like typescript and other transpiled languages. People are super motivated to do js because of the web and has driven large innovations around frameworks.But if you want to look at all these other reasons why people don't like Lua and blame it all on BigTech, go right ahead.
To me, Lua itself is a PITA when the code is too big. But is still cool for adding basic scripting to C based projects.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Keith Nicholas <keith.nicholas@gmail.com> wrote:While I quite like Lua in small doses, Lua isn't a type safe language, hence many of your problems only turn up at execution.But _javascript_ and node.js also suffer the same problems, why are they popular? Personally I think people underestimate the power of external influences. All of the top 10 languages are being pushed by the 4 largest, most ubiquitous software companies on the planet: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. I have no doubt that part of Pythons rise in popularity is because Microsoft has been heavily pushing it's use in VSCode and their entire web stack. It's also become a first class citizen in Visual Studio (proper).On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Charles Heywood <vandor2012@gmail.com> wrote:It's interesting to see that Lua reached almost 70% in "dreaded" - that many people who used it didn't want to go back to using it? Wonder what the cause could be. My guess is probably bad environments that use Lua, and the environment's what they didn't like, but Lua takes the blame.--On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:04 PM Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:--