Re: need help: some features of Lua don't fit well together

["John Hind" <john.hind@...>]

"You could point out its isomorphism to "English is the language of movies
and 
everybody watches movies, so English is the only language which everybody
can 
understand, that is why it beats German, French, Italian and other
languages." 
A similar argument did not save Latin from being barbarized."

- Dirk Laurie

Is English the language of movies? Better would be "English is the language
of 
Science (or Aviation, or Business), and since we have to learn it for those 
purposes, we may as well make it the language of 'X' as well". So pretty
much 
every programmer has to learn Javascript at some point for browser
programming 
(and there is a good argument that all UI programming should be browser 
programming). Given this, there follows a good argument for preferring it
over, say, 
Lua or Python for other purposes as well. Neat systems like Node.js and even

the availability of Javascript on microcontroller chips:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-pico-javascript-on-a-usb-s
tick

begin to make an unanswerable case, sadly.

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