It takes like 10 minutes to learn Lua's syntax. You can literally stumble through it with [1] the tl;dr .. is for concatenating strings ~= is not equal

It takes like 10 minutes to learn Lua's syntax. You can literally stumble through it with [1] the tl;dr .. is for concatenating strings ~= is not equal to The way it handles closures is beautiful and extremely powerful. Lua is a Scheme in FortranScript's clothing. I like your theory of unpopularity, that statement is always true in some capacity for esoteric things, liked this are also liked because they are popular. My favorite posts are the ones that are like yours BUT they continue to use it because it is the best tool for the job. Thats when you know it is true. [1] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/