[sfeng]

What’s your definition of finicky? JavaScript is something like 3-10x faster than Lua for most benchmarks (1). If you’re referring to the event loop, it shouldn’t be all that relevant for singleminded code like this that is only processing a single event every half second. If you’re referring to mathematical oddities, it is also not relevant as JavaScripts love of floats is well suited here.

1- https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/amp/lua-v...

[boffinAudio]

Thanks for the enlightenment, I can see I have to work on my understanding of JS a bit more .. I did not know that it surpassed Lua in terms of performance. I guess Mike Pall is sorely missed.