This isn't really a Tir feature, but do you hate when there's bugs in your core libraries and that guy who "owns" the broken library refuses to fix it? Me too, that's why Lua and LuaRocks are awesome. You get a tight core language that's completely described in_a_few_HTML_pages and then install all the platform libraries you need with LuaRocks. No more gatekeepers with Lua.

"No more gatekeepers" seems to be a theme with Zed's contributions of late. (And quite possibly over a longer time span.) In the case of Lua, the role of "core" and the "glue" are both a particular small and fast language. Because "core" is so small, any "benevolent dictators" in this environment have a small footprint. (Yes, there's a "small government" analogy here, but let's leave the politics out.)

The price of this is library fragmentation. There's more than one approach to objects, for example.

I wonder if there's a middle ground? Node.js seems successful in promoting a community standard of no blocking code.