[vtereshkov]

> That said, I don't know what the goals of this language are, and bluntly, perf isn't everything ;)

Since the most popular scripting language is Lua, I can name three big disadvantages of Lua that Umka is trying to fix:

- Verbose and unfamiliar syntax

- Type error detection at run time instead of compile time (a direct consequence of dynamic typing)

- Data structures not compatible with C (which is particularly odd, as Lua is specifically designed to interact with C)

So yes, Umka's main goals are not related to performance.