Comment by lucasoshiro

> In my opinion, Lua would kill for many use cases

Perhaps it could, but it should?

Let me explain. Take the example of JavaScript, which was kinda similar to Lua when it was conceived: both were simple languages, targeted to solve specific problems, waiving more complex features and delegating many things to their users.

Example: early JS and Lua don't have OO, but they have the tables (Lua) and objects (JS) which are hash tables with some syntax sugar to look like POO languages if you needed. Then, the user is responsible to handle this in a sane way, which should not be big deal for the scenario that those languages were created.

JS, however, has grown outside its original purpose. Somehow it became a server language, and somehow it became a monster. TypeScript, CoffeeScript, ClojureScript and others were created to delegate back stuff to the language. Lua, however, is still doing well its job in its simplicity.