moonscript transpiler

[ChrisMAN]

I have been tempted by this for a while.

 

http://moonscript.org/

https://github.com/leafo/moonscript

 

It almost makes lua feel like a real language.

 

http://snipplr.com/view/3750/awful-hack-to-perform-early-returns-in-lua/

[Daimour]

It almost makes lua feel like a real language.

What's wrong with LUA? It's excellent language by itself without any sugar.

[Rick]

I wish it was OO out of the box instead of what you have to do to get it to act OO. Other than that I like it.

[ChrisMAN]

OO is kind of wierd. It uses prototypical inheritance through metatables. Classical inheritance is more obvious. Mixins an duct typing are kind of the preferred OO model in scripting languages any ways.

 

I am a professional ruby developer. That is probably what makes me cranky. Ruby is such a joy to code in. I can't seem to get anything meaningful on one line. I miss good built in iterators. I havnt had to do much string manipulation yet but it looks really ugly. I am sitting at about 1500 lines of lua at the moment which would have been 600 lines of clear ruby. At least its not 5000 lines of c++.

 

The things i have run into it so far.

 

Arrays start at 1

cant return early w/o a hack

really annoying to check false vs nil

global variables by default

no self asignment operators

no ternary operators

mixins + metatables

break/continue is borked

[Daimour]

That's true. Every language has its pros and cons. Don't forget about pros.

[Josh]

At some point, you've just got to buckle down and write the code.

[ChrisMAN]

:shipit:

[Josh]

lol