Re:We need less powerful languages (2015)
by AlexAndScripts on Saturday February 11, 2023 @04:00PM
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About a dozen? The default statement when it comes up is "god I hate it, it's time for a better designed easily-embeddable language". It doesn't have any kind of mechanism for sane organisation of code, I vaguely remember it having bizarre types, arrays start from 1, the syntax is incredibly tedious, the errors are bad, how could I forget global-by-default variables, ... I get that it's easy to embed, but I find it to be a complete pain to work in.
I've probably written Lua for about 15 hours in various contexts, and I've never enjoyed it.
I haven't written in it for a while though.
What are the properties of the language that they do hate, specifically?
As I've said, my own code is mostly in Lua these days, and I am enjoying working on it. It's closed-source, so I can't point you to it.