A comment from /be on Lua:
http://brendaneich.com/2006/02/python-and-javascript/#comment-435

On Feb 11, 9:18 am, Adrian Olaru <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right now, JavaScript is the way to go. My opinion is that programmers love
> having more choices. Like on the server we are using Python Ruby or even
> JavaScript nowadays. But what we've got on the client? Only JavaScript. We
> had a lot of opportunities to "fix" the language but we stopped having
> another option to the language. I love programming in JavaScript. Don't get
> me wrong. I'm just saying that having other scripting languages as an option
> is not such a bad thing.
>
> btw, Lua is small, like 202KB small, tarred and gzipped. :)  I am giving Lua
> as an example because it has similar features as JS and I think JS
> programmers will not have any difficulties coding in Lua right away. Except
> maybe for that table offset Peter was talking about. :)

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