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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Nobody in the 70s and 80s had problems with begin and end when computers had a lot less memory than they do today. Pascal, Ada, PL/I, Algol, etc. programmers to this day prefer begin and end. Modern universities teach that shorter is better, but they mean code complexity and not length of symbols.

Early C stupidity is more of a problem now than it was then because barely anyone used C. In the 80s, there were more Pascal, BASIC, COBOL programmers than C programmers.