Been working on my programming language https://github.com/buzz-language/buzz for 4 years now (with some down periods).
Currently mainly working on the tooling: LSP, DAP and formatter.
Also managed to get fuzzing working with AFL++ and found a bunch of bugs with it.
When my son was in the last stages of leukemia, Bluey was on repeat all day. He was completely immersed in that world and we, his parents were there with him too.
Now, 5 years after his death, he's little brother is also in love with the show and we watch an episode at least once a day.
There will never be another TV show like this one for those personal reasons and also because it's just too good.
Author here. A few points make buzz a “scripting language” in my view:
- runs in a VM
- garbage collected
- high level
- “simple” meaning there’s only a handful of concepts to understand to use it
It’s true that we’re not used to scripting languages having a type system. But its a trend that is catching on: python has types, php too and typescript is at its peak in popularity to name a few.
I'm not excluding the idea to allow the user to choose between the two. But the language must remain simple and relatively high level so I'm wary of going down that road.
Reading the sources I used to search for the correct term, I think I may have been fooled by ancient greek allophones. Ex. : ὁ ἄγγελος /ho áŋgelos/
Anyway like I said, too late to change now!
I’m talking about the cognitive load of the language. Learning JS is a real complex task whereas learning Lua is not. Learning JS as is is hard since its moving so fast. I think nobody can deny the confusion surrounding the language. Lua is stable is the sense that 5 years from now you will still know how to use it even if you don’t keep up with the latest updates.
Also if you have ever dealt with any babel/webpack craziness recently you know what I’m referring to :)
I think you misunderstand the aim of the article. It’s not a case and point against js but for Lua in the browser. When I list positive points of Lua, I’m not implying they don’t exist in JS.