The list of niceties of lua from the article: > First class functions and closures > A versatile data structure: the table > Vararg expressions > Lexical sc

The list of niceties of lua from the article: > First class functions and closures > A versatile data structure: the table > Vararg expressions > Lexical scoping > Iterators > Coroutines (see below) Well, looking at modern day js: * First class functions and closures, check * the table: a combination of `Array`, `Map` and `Map<Number, T>` can prettify much cover typical usecases of lua tables, so js is close in this regard * Vararg expressions, check * Lexical scoping, check * Iterators, check * Coroutines, with libraries and abstractions on top of generator functions In addition, in js land, other paradigms of concurrency exists, such as CSP (goroutines), FRP (Rxjs and co). Of course, these can be implemented in Lua as well, but the libraries may not quite as battle-tested. The author also mentions a sane coercion system; this still true, but ever since "use strict", unexpected coercions can mostly be avoided in js. On the other hand, js has: 1. Typescript and static typing (a bit unfair to consider this js, but ts gets access to a large portion of high quality npm packages), flow is also great 2. Multiple mature echosystems of UI frameworks (React) - for instance if you need a date picker or an autocompleter, it's just `yarn add` away; I doubt enough such libraries exist for browser side lua yet 3. Tooling support - webpack, prettier, postcss and so on I like lua, but I feel it does not offer much in addition to what modern js already provides. Of course bring more languages to the browser is always a good thing, on the other hand I do feel this is a tough sell to the larger community.