I used to like Lua a lot...

https://garry.tv/2014/08/16/i-fell-out-of-love-with-lua/
I used to like Lua a lot and now I don’t. I think anyone intending to add a scripting language to their game/engine should seriously consider using Javascript instead.

Javascript is used all over the web. It’s only going to end up getting used more and more. Google, Mozilla and Microsoft are all working to make it faster and faster.

Ultimately if we have to teach people a scripting language, lets teach them a language that will serve them in the future. Sure the jump from Lua to Javascript isn’t that great, but if you skip Lua there’s no need to make a jump at all.

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oh I'm not denying that there's a lot of early C stupidity that still fucks us in the ass to this day. null-terminated strings and weak typing are big ones.

I disagree about aesthetics though. Pascal is more readable for inexperienced programmers but the more you program in it, the more annoying the verbosity and the need for 5 keystrokes (b e g i n) instead of 2 (shift + [ ) becomes. if similarity to English language was important, COBOL would be the archetypal good language that would then get gradually replaced by Inform 7. and while I can respect Inform, I prefer the raw aesthetics of well-written low-level C or the regularity and elegance of Lithps.