Comment by binary132

It never fails to strike me as odd how polarizing Lua is. Some people (like me) find it really pleasant and fluid to use. Other people get hives from things like 1-based indexing and global-by-default. The intense complaints are just so silly, especially when the “better alternative” presented is typically Python, which is one of the worst languages I’ve ever used. Lua’s syntax and semantics are so much smaller and cleaner that it’s mindblowing how simple it makes rather complex and custom abstractions. When I use Lua I feel like I’m working on another level of abstraction than in other languages, almost a lisp, but with just the right amount of convenient / quality-of-life features that it makes everything trivial. Multiple inheritance, mixins, type constructors are all trivial classes, if you want them, or parts of them, or to do your own thing entirely, or you can choose none of it at all and merely build a very primitive C-composition scripting API for your library, and yes embedding languages inside it is therefore also trivial. I’ll never understand the mindset that leads people to hating it.

“But bro, Python has C libraries!!”

and?

Lua is built out of C semantics and has a beautiful C API

if I want native libraries, I’ll just take a little time to write a trivial wrapper for precisely as much functionality as I want from the library