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Syntax is very subjective and a matter of taste and familiarity. I don't really like Lua's syntax but from a cognitive load standpoint it's still your average d
by simias 8y ago
Syntax is very subjective and a matter of taste and familiarity. I don't really like Lua's syntax but from a cognitive load standpoint it's still your average dynamically typed, garbage collected scripting language. Syntax notwithstanding it's easier to code for than C's unmanaged and unchecked runtime or Rust's complex type system and borrow checker.
>Situations where configuration files aren't sophisticated enough but a Python interpreter is too heavy are few and far between.
That's not the point I was making and I'm not trying to get into a language war between Lua and Python, I have no horse in that race.