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Could you name three?

• otikik 12y ago
  - Can make backward-incompatible changes (see: Javascript, Python) - Less trolls & nasty people in general. - All the advantages of a niche language (I got my current job because no one else in my country knows Lua :P).
  • catwell 12y ago
    Advantage 1 is the main reason why today's Lua is not as complex as today's JavaScript, despite Lua being older.
    • ANTSANTS 12y ago
      It also significantly helped that Lua's main users could easily use an older implementation if something they depended on/didn't feel like fixing was removed. In contrast, breaking backwards compatibility for Javascript would be unthinkable. OTOH, there is real fragmentation between 5.1 and 5.2, so not even Lua is immune to the downsides of breaking backwards compatibility.