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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what's the difference between curly braces, begin/end and significant whitespace though? just aesthetics.

also, I wouldn't say that Pascal is better designed than C. it is a nice language (despite the fact that so many people seem to hate it) but it wasn't like that from the start. the canonical example of early Pascal stupidity is array size being a part of its type.