Re: Has Lua reached perfection?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> I know that some of the folks on this list do not think so as is
> evident from the continuous stream of feature requests. But I can't
> think of any feature that I would want added to Lua 5.3 that would
> justify breaking backward compatibility. There are some things that I
> wish were different about Lua - e.g. I wish that variables were local
> by default, or that arrays and hash maps were distinct types, but I
> would not want such changes if it meant breaking existing code.
>
> It takes good taste and years of effort to create a language such as
> Lua. Despite some 'warts' overall Lua 5.3 appears to have reached a
> state of perfection (or maturity) in my view.
>
> Regards
> Dibyendu
>

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away."

The 5.x series as a whole is probably pretty close to perfect in terms
of language design. The variations appear to be mostly bikeshedding.

/s/ Adam