> The syntax is dead simple It really annoys me that people confuse ease of use due to familiarity with simplicity. Many programmers will be familiar with the

> The syntax is dead simple It really annoys me that people confuse ease of use due to familiarity with simplicity. Many programmers will be familiar with the typical curly-braced C-style syntax many mainstream programming languages have and so find JS syntax easy to get into but that has nothing to do with simplicity. Building a parser for JS is not exactly simple nor is teaching new programmers the syntax. Lua is vastly superior in both aspects. People just tend to forget the pain most new programmers have to go through learning a curly braced languages, having to figure what all these weird symbols and different kinds of braces and how to type them. JS is arguable even worse than other curly braced languages because of weird exceptions like automatically adding semicolons to line endings or these fancy arrow functions. Honestly JS is one of very few languages were I actually need to look up syntax after having not used it for a while.