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TheLoafOfBread
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Why not just use LUA?
Benjamin_Dobell
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Because of compile-time type safety / static analysis. And I say this as the author of an IDE that bolts those features onto Lua:
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
dboreham
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Because: weird language?
dgellow
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Love Lua, but damn I hate the 1-based index so much, it is such a pain to adapt to it and a source of bug when implementing algorithms…
andrewstuart
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I know nothing about lua but I could never touch a 1 based language.
Lua - an entire language that’s an off by one error.
TheLoafOfBread
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The thing is that LUA is here for quite some time and will be here when Microsoft will ends support for this experiment and it will get slowly depreciated and forgotten.
paulddraper
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