IIRC, if you make a typo in a var name in Lua, you don't even get an exception like Python -- you just get nil. I'd prefer it to be more strict about errors li

IIRC, if you make a typo in a var name in Lua, you don't even get an exception like Python -- you just get nil. I'd prefer it to be more strict about errors like that. 1-based indexing. Prototypes rather than classes -- I don't think having to roll your own or research an object system for every project is a good use of time. Lua is a great language implementation, but whenever I try to actually program in it, it feels like an inferior version of Python...