Sorry for the top post. Funny, most of the reasons quoted for not liking Lua are some of the things I find most appealing. Russ Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Virgin Mobile network. Original Message From: Sean Conner Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 2:10 PM To: Lua mailing list Reply To: Lua mailing list Subject: Re: Selenophobia It was thus said that the Great Egor Skriptunoff once stated: > Hi! > > According to Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017, > https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2017&utm_content=blog-link#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages > Lua is ranked 9-th in "Most dreaded Languages" list: > 2/3 of developers who are currently using Lua express no interest in > continuing to use it. > > That's quite unexpected. > Probably, most of SO survey respondents are Lua newcomers. > What may be the reasons for their "moon fear"? > > Maybe, deceptive simplicity (hidden complexity) of the language? There's some commentary about this at reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/60ynhr/lua_featuring_as_9_most_dreaded_language_on_stack/ The consensus there seems to be: it's missing batteries and I can't get started with it in less than 5 seconds on Windows. -spc (And there's some grousing about LuaRocks not being as good as it could be, but there's no details about what is missing from LuaRocks)