Features
- pure object-oriented based on prototypes
- lazy evaluation of function parameters
- exception handling
- Perl-like regular expressions
- incremental garbage collecting supporting weak links
- highly portable
- DLL/shared library dynamic loading on most platforms
- introspection, reflection and metaprogramming
- Actor-based concurrency
- Coroutines
- small virtual machine
- higher-order functions
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