I have a feeling that if Lua catches on, though, that it will become the same cut-n-paste quagmire that PHP did. If you are only using something because it is already installed, you are not going to bother with libraries. That makes me sad.
Well, any language that becomes popular is going to have its share of crappy code being written. I'd much rather see newbie programmers get their start with a cleaner language like Lua than PHP, maybe it might help them learn better from the beginning.
I have a feeling that if Lua catches on, though, that it will become the same cut-n-paste quagmire that PHP did. If you are only using something because it is already installed, you are not going to bother with libraries. That makes me sad.
But, we will see how it goes.