@vidak @50htz @akkartik Lua's hard to use for type-ins because it's block-structured, not easy to keep focus in, AND it has fussy, awful syntax. Did you type : or ::? There's way too many ways to do similar things in it.

#Lua is what a C++ developer thinks is "easy enough for a level designer".

#BASIC has the virtues of being trivial to read, write, and only has two data types, plus arrays of those. No classes, no function pointers. If you add named labels or functions, it's "modern" enough.