[HN Gopher] Lua will be 30 this year
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       Lua will be 30 this year
        
       Author : squarefoot
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2023-01-03 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | liendolucas wrote:
       | Ah, Lua... That programming language that still invites you to
       | implement a split function a zillion ways and get it wrong:
       | http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin Found this out when I had to
       | implement a snippet in nginx... Avoided at all costs since then.
        
       | phaedryx wrote:
       | Lua is older than JavaScript and I want to believe, in an
       | alternate universe, it supplanted it.
        
         | hlship wrote:
         | How did we manage to post that same observation almost
         | simultaneously?
        
           | LAC-Tech wrote:
           | There's alot of similarities - weak dynamic typing, closures
           | from day one, both came with mechanisms to do something like
           | self-style prototype OO, only have a double for a numeric
           | data type, both fairly small langs designed for "simple"
           | scripting (though JS has grown).
        
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       | hlship wrote:
       | Imagine the state of the world if Brendan Eich had known about
       | Lua and spent those nine days integrating that into Netscape. I
       | believe it had a compatible license, even back in 1995.
        
         | LAC-Tech wrote:
         | Yeah imagine all the Lua transpiling we'd be doing.
        
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