On: Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

[xanathar]

I was almost semi-proud of having done my implementation, why did you ruin the party.

Jokes aside, and not to boast about what I did, honestly, but Lua is (in hindsight - I wish I realized before) full of gotchas which are definitely not easy to implement (just one word which still makes my stomach hurt: COROUTINES).

I honestly think there are simpler (and better) languages to target. With hindsight, experience and pain, of course.

[dman → xanathar]

You have every right to be extremely proud of what you accomplished - writing your own compiler is extremely gratifying and you have my respect!