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Re:MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles ... by throwaway7645 on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:43PM (#14441619)
Agreed, but it looks like it adds a layer of syntax to give you things like classes without the user having to leverage metatables.
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Re:MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles ... by RyanSquared on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:47PM (#14441643)
That is correct. It's also done dynamically so you don't have any external dependencies required when transpiling to Lua code.

EDIT: I am not saying this is better - it could certainly be improved or, as is the case with a project of mine, injected into the runtime as a global value. It's just good for running MoonScript alongside Lua.

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