> Before Lua 5.3 there was no integer type, this makes a lot of things harder than needed in programming, unless you just write high level code. Wasn't the ide

> Before Lua 5.3 there was no integer type, this makes a lot of things harder than needed in programming, unless you just write high level code. Wasn't the idea to only use lua as a high level scripting language, and drop down into C(++) if you needed to go low level?