Re: Has Lua reached perfection?

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2018-01-27 10:44 PM, 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. 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

Yes, Lua 5.3 is pretty close to perfect. It's the almost perfect balance 
between performance and flexibility (including optimized varargs). :)

I often miss a trait system/OOP by composition, tho...

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