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I mean, the main shortcoming of Ruby is that it was designed 25 years ago and is being used for far more than it was designed for... Pony is a great language t

I mean, the main shortcoming of Ruby is that it was designed 25 years ago and is being used for far more than it was designed for... Pony is a great language though. And yes it has an amazing concurrency and parallelism model and showcases the actor model very nicely.

pull_my_finger 4y ago
Age isn't necessarily the issue imo. Lua is older than Ruby and has managed to show restraint against implementing every new popular language feature that has shown up in the interim time. And when Lua does add a feature it's usually done in a way that is congruent with the existing idioms. I'd say Ruby, JavaScript and PHP tend to bolt-on features that are popular without much thought of original design goals or existing idioms.
- Mikeb85 4y ago
  Luas also not used for much beyond scripting... There's no Shopify, GitHub, Stripe or AirBnB built on Lua.