Rants about Lua
Read OriginalThe article details a developer's frustrations with Lua after using it for several months, specifically to configure the awesome window manager. It criticizes core language design flaws, including the inflexible length operator (#) that bypasses metamethods for strings and tables, and the limitations of the __index and __newindex metamethods, which require workarounds like proxy tables for full access monitoring.
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