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know it's not a fair comparison, but relative to JavaScript, I thoroughly appreciate that Lua moves slowly as a language. Severely reduces maintenance burden and it's more conducive to longer-applicable content (especially important in the context of learning).

The philosophy is probably best summarized by Roberto's talk, How Much Does It Cost

https://youtu.be/gXdS3IftP0Y

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Lua Workshop 2017: How much does it cost? - Roberto Ierusalimschy (PUC-Rio / Lua.org)

How much does a feature cost in a programming language? Frequently, when people propose new features for a software, the most common metric is lines of code....
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in reply to Andrew Chou

Danny (he/they)
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curious I've come into contact with Lua before but I've never used it, I'm curious now... in grad school a prof said that as (biological) science researchers without a formal cs training we might find benefit from flitting around to use whatever language worked for us in the moment. Different languages = different strengths. + research software is a tangle of many fragile projects that were made without thinking about longevity so often workflows have to stitch together things.

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