I really like Lua but I've mostly needed it to write less maddening shell scripts, and it sadly falls flat when you need parallelism. And I mean an easy and int

I really like Lua but I've mostly needed it to write less maddening shell scripts, and it sadly falls flat when you need parallelism. And I mean an easy and intuitive one -- I know it has multithreading libraries but they produce overly complicated and verbose code. Meanwhile you can just use `parallel` in your shell scripts with very little ceremony. Lua is great in many ways but looking at it in 2023, it's kind of stuck in the past.