Worse, I see C (as in ! or &&), and Perl (as in manifestly more than one way to do it).
replyThere are real improvements though, such as ?. and ??= that help with default-nullable everything.
Ternary is very useful, but it I'd rather see it implemented idiomatically:
pos += (if forward then +1 else -1)
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replyI kinda have seen somewhere on internet, that the language design of lua and js(well, ecmascript to be precise) is somehow related. But can't really find the exact reference I have seen.. it was long time ago when I read this.
replyThere's some overlap in the languages they were inspired by (eg Scheme, or the chains Modula -> Lua vs Modula -> Java -> Javascript), but as far as I'm aware, the original designs were made independently.
replyNow, the object systems do look similar, but that seems to be a case of convergent evolution: Javascript took direct inspiration from Self, whereas Lua's system is based on a more generic fallback mechanism for table access.
Lua to me always felt very JavaScripty, just with a different syntax.
replyLua predates JavaScript by about 2 years though.
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