Moonscript, a better LUA?

[Julius]

http://moonscript.org/

Happend to come across this... maybe of interest for some of you.

[andrewj]

Not my cup of tea (I've never been a fan of significant whitespace).

What I did find interesting is that he considers all the Lua keywords as "line noise" -- I've heard the exact same thing from Lua proponents about C/C++ (operators like "&&" instead of "and" and so forth). Seems one person's beautiful code is another person's line noise.

[Sauer2]

So it's the CoffeeScript counterpart of Lua?
I find language-to-language compilers to be a interesting approach, but wouldn't it be better to use a target language, which is old and isn't still under heavy development, for example C or maybe Ada?
Also think about the additional dependencies.

BTW: Is it just me or is the font of the page in firefox on Windows 7 somewhat ugly?

[Tranberry]

Sauer2: It is ugly in chrome too.

[Sauer2]

That's interesting. Also the fact that the IE9 rendering is more smooth but without the shadows. I guess you can choose between ugly and ugly, then.