Comment by giancarlostoro

I have never asked this before, but Lua seems to have a couple of different languages implemented in itself, almost making me think of how JavaScript has a similar offering. Has anyone compared JavaScript and Lua in the language building regard? I'm curious to see what the most commonly used JS / Lua features are when designing a new language on top of those two languages. I know some languages have features that help you to build a new language (or it seemed to be like that) I think Java / C# do but I don't remember the names of the classes for that stuff, last I saw it was many years ago. Also of course I know Lisp lets you get there too, if I were to try to create my own language I'd try building my own lisp as a first project, and then go from there to try and make something different.