In other words, you don't like Lua, because your favorite IDE doesn't properly support it? (Or maybe it does, when you install the aforementioned language server)
> In other words, you don't like Lua, because your favorite IDE doesn't properly support it?
That's normal. Many - perhaps most - programmers lack appropriate mental tools to compare languages meaningfully. They instead use any kind of heuristic they find useful at the time. The never-ending discussions that mistake familiarity with readability are another example of this mechanism.
> Edit: FYI I use IntelliJ with Lua support,
In other words, you don't like Lua, because your favorite IDE doesn't properly support it? (Or maybe it does, when you install the aforementioned language server)