Exactly. I learned Javascript after Lua, and it was pretty similar, except a bunch of clearly worse design choices, and a pile of complexity mostly related to t

Exactly. I learned Javascript after Lua, and it was pretty similar, except a bunch of clearly worse design choices, and a pile of complexity mostly related to the web platform. (Why is this magical? Why aren't returns symmetrical to inputs? Why are the semicolons and other syntax so silly? Where are the cooperative coroutines? Why are the types and conversions so much more complicated without adding any additional value? Why all the extra ceremony around what is fundamentally the same prototype OOP system? Etc, etc.)