I gotta say, it's really fucking annoying I always need to write a SHIT TON O BOILER PLATE for any lua code

can you elaborate please? I'm thinking about learning lua

and here I thought the appeal was that it was a concise language

@kiki like, say, you're doing some async IO. You have coroutines, but you have to write your own async/await mechanism. Same if you're doing OOP, either emulate the "class" keyword or define every single class using prototypical inheritance.

It's like that everytime. It seems small at first, but it adds up a lot

@kobenz oh so basic language support is missing

Honestly theres been some solid attempts to build lua-like languages and improvements to lua.

I like wren a lot, keeps the smallness, but adds some much needed affordances.

Moonscript is cool too but is definitely abandoned.

From a technical perspective they give you very few things in the way of maintainability (but what scripting language doesn't). But for what they are, they're genuine if small improvements to lua.

A proper language building on lua's bones, keeping all its constraints in mind, could go a long way in the same way the erlang vm now gets more use than erlang.