Re: MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@gmx.net> wrote:
> There are some languages inspired more or less by Lua, but not much using
> the LuaVM and even less producing Lua code, so it is an interesting product.

Fun is a good motivation and any new language opens up possibilities.
Being Lua-based is a smart way to go, since there are libraries
available and you will get great performance.  Some of the MS idioms
(*t is short for ipairs(t), table comprehensions) are very expressive.

Local-by-default and Significant whitespace raise their heads again...

steve d.