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r/lua Subreddit · Published July 27, 2024
ServeThePatricians, Reddit user
A 2022 Stack Overflow developer survey placed Lua near the bottom of the "loved" rankings, which prompted extended discussion on r/lua. Critics pointed to familiar complaints: 1-based indexing, the ~= inequality operator, a deliberately…
Lua
r/lua Subreddit · Published September 22, 2023
HG0973, Reddit user
In a multi-year Reddit discussion, developers debated whether Lua is best described as an "underrated" language, pointing to its embedded use in large-scale projects such as Vermintide 2, reported at roughly 1.2 million lines, as well as…