Language ShowOff Part #1: Lua

Pros:
   * Tiny
   * Crossplatform
   * Easy to embed
   * Fairly easy to extend
   * Has no external dependencies
   * Easy to learn due to simple syntax
   * Has metatables, which allow creating objects, and with that, allow OOP

Contra:
   * The builtin stdlib doesn't allow much more than just basic IO
   * The stackoriented API might be confusing to those unfamiliar with the concept of stackbased APIs
   * Due to the do ... end syntax, closures and co tend to look clumsy:
   
       pcall(function()
           stuff ...
       end)

>>34
The only reason OO is kludgy in Lua is because metatables are utterly broken. As for declaring variables as local manually, that's a great indicator of a sane language (though it doesn't apply to C++ and Java).

>>35
Fuck off, troll.

>>39
Do you mean the particular implementation details in Lua, or the general concept?
Both. There are things you can override in metatables, and there are things you can't. That's really bad.