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

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

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:20 PM, John Hind <john.hind@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
> begin to make an unanswerable case, sadly.

"other purposes" being vaguely defined here.  Despite the node.js
excitement, under the hood the world runs on a mixture of C (for the
little), and C++ and Java for the server.

The argument assumes that people should be uni-lingual, as well, which
does not make for well-rounded developers.