> What’s the dev experience actually like for serious Lua
The dev experience for lua is f-ing awful.
The language is small, but not “simple”; it’s stuck in 1985.
The tooling is nearly non-existent and the stuff that does exist is a joke.
The few libraries that exist are awful and barely maintained; the maintained libraries are maintained by neckbeards with a god-complex.
The community is “reimplementing everything by hand is the right way to do it AND ALSO you’re an idiot doing it wrong” toxic. There are a million good reasons why it’s only has a foothold in nginx and Roblox territory.
It’s not a joke to say that it’s f-ing terrible all the way around.