Always glad to read histories of Lua in the wild, it certainly is kind of an odd language but its simplicity and embedability makes it for a great choice for a lot of use cases.
I used to like moonscript coffescript-like syntax, but nowadays I mostly like plain lua, though Fennel looks appealing.
lua could have been a good replacement for yaml configuration files, the tables syntax is really natural and being a full programming language (a small one) allows for more complex usage.
The most dystopian part of all that is that we are getting into a future in which React is the preferred "language" just because it's the favorite of our AI overlords.
So much wasted potential, I was a top 1% reader for a couple years (mostly because I saved a lot of things probably); it was a convenient way to save articles and references in multiple devices but at the end I was frustated it was so cumberstone to keep links organized.
I stopped paying premium and migrated to a self-hosted Wallabag, which doesn't have all the features I want but hey, in hindsight it was the right decision.
It would be cool if they open sourced the code, but one can only dream.
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