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by kgwxd 2842 days ago
>Lua predates PHP by 2 years

Woah, TIL. At most, I would have guessed it was 10 years old.

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It's amazing how many of the languages that feel recent today actually came out in the 90s: Python, JavaScript, Lua, Haskell, Java from the top of my head. Python is only five years younger (1990) than C++ (1985).

I guess it shows how much time you need to invest until a language is mature enough to enter common use, unless it's backed by a large entity like Microsoft (C#), Google (Go) or Mozilla (Rust).