Comment by pseudony
1 year ago
The answer as a whole is serious, I said as much, read again. A singled out this one point, because it is not. It is akin to any other knee-jerk dismissive attitude to anything different. Casting away a far more proven language, used for over a decade in thousands of serious, commercial projects with wide editor (and LSP) support etc over indexing conventions, is not serious.
Lua is my first 1-indexed language, i have yet to have a single bug over this. It's a irrational fear.
Nitpick: you haven’t found any bugs. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Yes. So there may be a price to pay, one day.
But a vague, unsubstantiated feeling that one day, you might introduce a one-off indexing bug should not justify discarding Lua, and all its substantial benefits over project.
Arguing the pro's of Rust data-structure interop in case of a Rust project - that makes sense. This, this is basically nonsense.
> But a vague, unsubstantiated feeling that one day, you might introduce a one-off indexing bug should not justify discarding Lua, and all its substantial benefits over project.
Nobody said anything like that. There's no vague feeling of indexing bugs; there's a concrete degradation of code quality.
And yes it's only one factor, not a deal-breaker. Nobody here said it was.
> A singled out this one point, because it is not.
It absolutely is. I gave you concrete reasons. (Edit: actually in a sibling comment)
> i have yet to have a single bug over this.
I never said anything about bugs.