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		chatmasta on Feb 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compil... MoonScript reminds me of CoffeeScript in this regard. Lua and JS are both prototypical languages, which is a feature, not a bug. Putting some `class` syntactic sugar around it helps initially, but also causes confusion when it doesn't act like a traditional OOP class.

Quenty on Feb 1, 2020 [–]

Lua isn’t really a prototypical language, it’s a build-your-own-class system. Metatables help facilitate this. You can do classic OOP if you want.

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