Lua hits my personal sweet spot for robustness vs. precision, Python is good enough to be worth criticizing, but hey, pleasant enough.

Lisps are a good example of using emptiness well, I wouldn't want an empty Lua table to be false, but you can't do classic Lisp programming without a falsy empty list, I wouldn't have it any other way. Large Lisp programs have their problems but it isn't the empty list causing those.

I wouldn't want to use Lil for the things I use Lua for. I think it's a great match for what Decker is doing here.