• Minimal, no IO, no module system, tiny stdlib
• Easy to implement
• Easy to learn
• Easy to embed
• tiny self-hosted compile to C implementation
• interpret in JS implementation for rapid prototyping

• Simple immutable primitives

• integers for counting, loops, indexes, offsets, lengths.

• Booleans (true, false)

• nil (essentially means undefined)

• utf8 encoded strings

• mutable data structures

• dense ordered lists, no holes allowed

• tuples, basically fixed length lists 2 or longer

• unordered maps where any value type can be key or value

• buffers for dealing with binary data

• explicit order of operations using parens
• arithematic operators (+, -, *, /, ^, %)
• comparison operators (<, <=, ==, >, >=, !=)
• logical operators (!, &&, ||, ^^)
• {args..| code } function literal, auto-returns the last expression
• Function calling using expr(arg1, arg2...) syntax
• vars declaration line at top of functions
• object index, set, delete, query syntax
• metamethod literal syntax
• if..elif..else expressions for forking logic and returning values

There are two kinds of loops. One is the standard while loop, another is a simple for..in loop that iterates over various types of objects using numerical indexes to length, keys, or a custom iterator function.