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		TillE on June 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn Lua in 15 Minutes Lua and Javascript are quite similar in that way: nice little languages that fall apart really quickly when you try building anything reasonably large or complex. I don't really understand the attraction, except in certain niches like Lua as an embedded scripting engine, when you really need something that can be trivially sandboxed.

landhar on June 25, 2013 [–]

> [...] except in certain niches like Lua as an embedded scripting engine, when you really need something that can be trivially sandboxed.

Isn't that exactly the reason JavaScript exists in the first place (i.e.: an embedded scripting engine for browsers) ?

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