If Lua is faster and smaller than Python, while being just as powerful and capable, then why is Python so much more popular?

• haskell-orbits

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• love

  258 4,341 9.6 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

Here’s a great prominent user: https://love2d.org

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• melody

  55 4,598 4.3 Rust

  Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable

Melody is a tool that implements a syntax that aims to be easier to read and maintain than regex maybe give it a look https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody

• awesome-low-level-programming-languages

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  A curated list of low level programming languages (i.e. suitable for OS and game programming)

Funny, I am also in the market for a C++ alternative and had looked at Nim before. I felt it was a bit "kitchen-sinky" but I'll give it another shot. A comparison of system languages that came out of this effort can be found here: https://github.com/robertmuth/awesome-low-level-programming-languages

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