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< Oh god, Python! ...I mean the programming language.

My wanting to rant a bit about the Tower of Babel of programming languages received a steam-releasing chuckle infusion when I chanced upon this:

https://babeljs.io/

I mean, of *course* it has to do with Javascript. Of *course*.

But, anyway, so happy to finally see the word "Lua" in someone else's posts. That made me so happy I nearly flung open the front door to scream an ecstatic "SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED LUA!!! SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED LUA!!!" to the neighborhood.

Can't say I ever hated Python, but I *was* surprised how prevalent it became way back when. And, of course, every time I see a job listing I mostly like, it requires Python expertise that I'll likely never have. Yes, could easily learn it, but can't lie my way into a job requiring expertise, and will likely never have expertise therein without learning it being a matter of living/employment.

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~impulse wrote (thread):

Honestly, maybe it's a good thing I haven't learned Javascript, it's incredibly broken and filled with unneeded features, or so I've heard anyway.

Regarding Lua, I think we can both agree it's immensely underrated, look at all the cool things you can do with tables and metatables! Oh and uh, coroutines are there too.

We don't talk about coroutines, they scare me.

I do really need to learn them though, they can be immensely useful for a lot of different things.

I think I may have hated Python because of the immense amount of libraries it had, and I had no idea which ones were the best to use.

Not sure, but I remember a lot of frustration.