I agree with you completely, Javascript has been a step backwards from what could have been, had we been teaching teenagers to glom the VM onto C/C++ layers. T

I agree with you completely, Javascript has been a step backwards from what could have been, had we been teaching teenagers to glom the VM onto C/C++ layers. This is just a much better approach than 'npm all the things' .. although Lua isn't without its warts: LuaJIT, LuaRocks, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 ..