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by leafo 5258 days ago
Lua is a great platform, but I think there are a lot of areas where it can be made more programmer friendly. That's why I wrote http://moonscript.org/
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I was about to mention how cool Moonscript is, but you beat me to it. =) Thanks for the awesome project!
MoonScript is just fantastic. List comprehensions and OOP are very welcome additions to Lua.
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Yet another language with significant whitespace and otherwise python-ish syntax. No thanks. I would have used Python if I wanted to. Plus, any source->source translator makes debugging a pain.