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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 04:25:59 JST Adrian Cochrane

   What is Lua? Its the simplest scripting language you can imagine, and probably even simpler!

   It only has a single collection type (alongside null, bools, strings, numbers, & functions) called "tables". These work as arrays, mappings, objects, module's public API, & so much more! Yes there's prototypal inheritance, or you could specify a computed-default value for missing keys.

   A module is a file which gets parsed into a function & called for the public API to be returned.

   • Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️ (bp@social.bennypowers.dev)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 05:08:33 JST Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️

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     @alcinnz And no parens ever!

     ```lua
     if parens then print'fail' end
     ```

   • Lorenzo (ranfdev@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 06:41:03 JST Lorenzo

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     @alcinnz Lua is so simple, I feel it's nearly as elegant as a lisp. But it doesn't have macros...

     Now I'm wondering... Is there a lisp with metatables and modules similar to Lua?
     Ah right, there's https://fennel-lang.org/.

     Now I want to build something with fennel.