I have to agree here, however this is mostly not an issue if you use luacheck, assertions and unit tests. Still, stronger typing would help, and this is why se

I have to agree here, however this is mostly not an issue if you use luacheck, assertions and unit tests. Still, stronger typing would help, and this is why several people are working on adding gradual typing to Lua. The main initiative is probably https://github.com/andremm/typedlua https://github.com/andremm/typedlua