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Moonscript, a better LUA?

PostPosted: 13 Aug 2011, 14:16
by Julius
http://moonscript.org/

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

Re: Moonscript, a better LUA?

PostPosted: 16 Aug 2011, 13:33
by 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.

Re: Moonscript, a better LUA?

PostPosted: 26 Aug 2011, 15:36
by 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?

Re: Moonscript, a better LUA?

PostPosted: 28 Aug 2011, 15:01
by Tranberry
Sauer2: It is ugly in chrome too.

Re: Moonscript, a better LUA?

PostPosted: 28 Aug 2011, 16:24
by 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.