Re: Has Lua reached perfection?

[Peter Billam <pjb@...>]

Greetings :-)

On 2018-01-28 11:44, Dibyendu Majumdar 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.

I've seen several languages commit slow suicide by adding things
and adding more things and adding more things until they become
a huge mess.  Also I really like the elegance in engineering
that comes from leaving things out if they're not necessary.
So I'm also a bit sad to see this stream of feature requests...
Lua is by far my favorite language, exactly because of its elegance.

Perfection may be too strong a word, but Lua is certainly close
to a local optimum.

Just my 2cents worth...
Peter Billam

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