Lua

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Lua is a programming language that's often used in embedded contexts. It's pretty small and pretty cute.

Please enjoy a little REPL up above.

https://lua.org

I do like working with Lua, though some things about it mildly annoy me:

• No assignment operators like +=
• No destructuring assignments like [a, b] = tbl
• ~= instead of !=
• No continue in loops
• Inability to have statements after return so I have to do do return end whenever I want to quickly return while testing
• No shorthand for function definitions like JavaScript's arrow functions
• No syntax for coroutines
• No string interpolation

Most of these are syntactic, which is interesting. The common one-based array indexing complaint doesn't really bother me that much in practice.

It'd be nice to have some more batteries, but it's fine, I guess.

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