1. ratdeptrai Dec 28, 2023 parent

   What is lacking is any space for community. No mailing-list or other place to discuss the direction of the project. No documentation expressing what is the overall reason or rationale behind the project, or who are the main contributors, how decisions are made, no roadmap.

   There seems to be zero braking force on adding new features to the syntax and libraries. While I agree with 90% of them, I can find no discussion of why they were added, what arguments against adding were considered, how the decision was made, and by whom.

   I have created my own (as yet unreleased) fork of Lua, adding some of these same features. I could abandon it and instead use (and contribute to) Pluto, but I am frightened by the mystery surrounding its origins, governance, and seeming lack of community input into the future direction.

2. ratdeptrai Dec 28, 2023 parent

   > - misspelling a variable or property still gives you nil instead of throwing an exception

   Isn't that the whole point of "frozen tables", which you listed as "good"? For globals, freeze `_G` and/or `_ENV`.

   https://pluto-lang.org/docs/New%20Features/Table%20Freezing

3. ratdeptrai Dec 28, 2023 parent

   Perhaps even more relevant, it's already the name of a persistence library for Lua. Probably unmaintained at this point, but it's been around for decades (version 1.2 was released in 2004). Unless names are invented words, collisions are inevitable at this point.

   http://lua-users.org/wiki/PlutoLibrary

   https://github.com/hoelzro/pluto

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