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Yes, although my experience with Moonscript does not match yours with Coffeescript. What I personally like a lot is how it makes it easier to write efficient Lua by because (for example) it makes local variables the default. Also, FWIW the LuaRocks server is written in Moonscript, and that's a pretty important bit of Lua infrastructure I'd say. [0] https://moonscript.org/reference/ [1] https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks-site

Hey all, I made MoonScript about 6 years ago. I used it to build a ton of opensource stuff in addition to the company I founded. I use it every day and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I regret not updating the language more frequently, but I've been busy building a bunch of stuff in it. The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis It's used for the following open source websites: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks-site https://github.com/leafo/streak.club The company I made, https://itch.io also runs on it. There are a a ton of extra Lua modules I've made in MoonScript to facilitate it. Here's a list of my published modules: https://luarocks.org/modules/leafo I've also completed Ludum Dare 11 times now, making a game each time in MoonScript. I've used https://love2d.org/ as

LuaJIT powers OpenResty[1] which powers my web framework Lapis[2] which powers my company itch.io[3]! (wow that's a mouthful) Anyway, it's a stack I'm really happy to be using. Asynchronous IO without any code nesting. I wrote more about the benefits here: http://leafo.net/posts/itchio-and-coroutines.html [1] https://openresty.org/en/ [2] http://leafo.net/lapis/ [3] https://itch.io/ I also made web server infrastructure for the Lua package manager LuaRocks in the same stack: https://luarocks.org Source is on github: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks-site Lua (especially with LuaJIT) is a great choice for web development.