[justincormack]

(a) Tessel produced a pretty complete open source JS to Lua converter, which runs node[1]

(b) People are not dumb, they can learn Lua. It is easier than learning JavaScript.

[1] https://github.com/tessel/colony-compiler

[Aldo_MX]

> (b) People are not dumb, they can learn Lua. It is easier than learning JavaScript.

I was not saying that people is dumb, I was saying that learning it requires extra time and effort, and that increases the cost of a project.

[j_s]

Tessel also implemented a JS runtime incorporating LuaJIT, though they since chosen V8.

https://github.com/tessel/runtime

https://tessel.io/blog/102381339917/a-new-engine-for-your-te...