> I think you need to be a better programmer to use lua effectively ... with lua, you have to know how to use these things on your own, because you can pretty much do anything and that can be reeeeally bad :)

I find this sentiment interesting. Perhaps somewhat akin to Linus Torvalds famously preferring C to weed out bad programmers.

I think many people would say that a language which makes it easier to do things poorly is objectively worse than the alternative. But the way a language "selects" the sort of programmers that use it is an important second-order effect (maybe even more important than the initial one?).