We should forget about Lua. We have better languages today. I did write code in Lua quite recently and was banging my head against lack of bitwise operators, wh

We should forget about Lua. We have better languages today. I did write code in Lua quite recently and was banging my head against lack of bitwise operators, which were added in the version later that the one that ships with the package I was extending. It is a language written in what seems to me to be a very organic manner with features added as and when they were needed, not per design, with predictable results of basic features that programmers today expect missing.