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SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Design: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Excellent documentation
From 1 comment
Nice work! This has pretty excellent documentation. Like really excellent documentation. But jumping into the code itself is a little bit of a beast with no tests or comments.…
MichaelGlass on HN
Impressive performance numbers
From 2 comments
Interesting performance numbers. I am happy to see something past java frameworks working out so well.
gte910h on HNCouldn't agree more. I've am looking at Lua for a new project and got excited when I saw this. However, that syntax looks terrible. What's worse, is it is inconsistent. Take: ```…
fingerprinter on HN
Objections
Backslash syntax for method calls is off-putting and inconsistent
From 2 comments
Looks interesting, but the use of "\" instead of "." is really a turnoff. Why do languages (I'm looking at you, PHP) think that using the backslash in any other way than escaping…
rufugee on HNCouldn't agree more. I've am looking at Lua for a new project and got excited when I saw this. However, that syntax looks terrible. What's worse, is it is inconsistent. Take: ```…
fingerprinter on HN
Lacks tests and code comments
From 1 comment
Nice work! This has pretty excellent documentation. Like really excellent documentation. But jumping into the code itself is a little bit of a beast with no tests or comments.…
MichaelGlass on HN
Requests
Add a test case to the benchmarks project
From 1 comment
Leafo, this looks great. I was not familiar with your MoonScript language prior to this. Say, since you cite the benchmarks project, would you mind submitting a test case for…
bhauer on HN
Add support for non-inlined templates such as CTPP2
From 1 comment
Would be nice to add support for not-inlined templates with high-performance template engine like CTPP2 (ngx_ctpp2)
snaky on HN
Questions
Is testing on the roadmap
From 1 comment
Nice work! This has pretty excellent documentation. Like really excellent documentation. But jumping into the code itself is a little bit of a beast with no tests or comments.…
MichaelGlass on HN
Should one learn Lua before MoonScript
From 1 comment
Would you recommend learning Lua first before going into moonscript ?
danjessen on HN
Alternatives named
Lua
From 2 comments
Couldn't agree more. I've am looking at Lua for a new project and got excited when I saw this. However, that syntax looks terrible. What's worse, is it is inconsistent. Take: ```…
fingerprinter on HNI really don't see why \ has anything do with escaping when not in the context of a string (or regex) literal. There is no ambiguity whatsoever. It's a shame more languages don't…
leafo on HN
Busted test framework
From 2 comments
Pushed native moonscript support to busted[0] this morning. :D [0] https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/busted/blob/master/spec/moonscript_spec.moon
ajacksified on HNBusted is awesome - really nice test framework.
alexatkeplar on HN