[leafo]

Disclaimer: I'm the author of MoonScript

> Yes, the class stuff in MS is plain wrong

There's nothing wrong about it, I'm sorry you don't like it! I'm happy that you have your own ideas but to go around saying it's wrong isn't very cool. The system was very intentionally designed. Now that's it's been 9 years and I've written 100s of thousands of lines of MoonScript, the class has proved to be very reliable. It compiles to simple concepts that are easy to reason about when working with both large and small code bases.

> The thing is, the prototypal, copy-on-write nature of Lua object orientation

This line is confusing to me. There is nothing about lua that is fundamentally copy-on-write. That would have to be a choice the developer makes, but it would be hard to enforce with language primitives unless you're hiding data within meta-tables

I think you're getting hung up on details that have nothing to do with MoonScript: if you want a different language then use a different language. Don't go around saying it's wrong because it's not the language you want.