MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua

Hey all, I made MoonScript about 6 years ago. I used it to build a ton of opensource stuff in addition to the company I founded. I use it every day and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I regret not updating the language more frequently, but I've been busy building a bunch of stuff in it. The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis It's used for the following open source websites…

No way, that's too soon! I only recently started working on a MoonScript fork[1][2], I'm not ready for HN! ;) My use case is integration with Awesome WM, and I hope to bring MS up to modern standards (whatever they happen to be) in the process. The current MoonScript is in a really tight spot: the aging codebase doesn't get updated, there's no one leading the development, and the community has like 20 members tops. We need people! For both…

I quite like the lua syntax as-is. It's simple, predictable and easy to read. This obsession with boiling everything down to strings of symbols is how folk wind up making fun of Perl and OCaml. What's this do? $$&[%] Or this? ?:> Buggered if I know. Only a professional Perl or OCaml programmer could tell you -- and indeed I made those up. Only a professional Perl or OCaml programmer could tell if they do anything at all. But pretty…