Thread:Deadcoder/@comment-5590118-20150913154725/@comment-5973717-20150913161046

I'm vaguely familiar about why Lua was ported.

As to your question of "Why would the language I use to generate content matter to a search engine?", the answer is "I don't know". I tend to avoid AI research in general, which includes search engine crawlers. I do not know if programming language diversity would affect those crawlers, even though I sort-of understand the pagerank algorithm. That's why I asked.

To answer your questions about making bridges, there are several answers. For starters, some people prefer Coffeescript over Javascript. I'm not one of these people, but despite judging people for my personal amusement, I'm not going to judge someone for preferring Coffeescript over Javascript. It's just for the developers.

For LISP, while there is a matter of programming language preference, LISP was simply designed for different applications than Javascript, and as a result, some things are easier in JS, and some are easier in Lisp. My idea here is that we the developers should have the tools that are easiest to use and work the best for what we need.

In summary, the reason I'm planning to make these languages available is so the developers have more and better tools. I know that's a questionable goal here, but so is roughly 80% of the stuff I code, so that's just fitting a theme.

If language diversity doesn't introduce any problems, then today is going to be fun.