Comment by ADeerAppeared

> To be fair, Brendan Eich was making a scripting language for the 90's web.

He was, and he doesn't deserve the full blame for being bad at designing a language when that wasn't his prior job or field of specialization.

But Lua is older so there's this element of "it didn't need to be this bad, he just fucked up" (And Eich being a jerk makes it amusing to pour some salt on that wound. Everyone understands it's not entirely serious.)