And even in its small size, Lua has its ways of being complicated. The interaction of multiple return values with varargs, for example. Or having to use pcall w

And even in its small size, Lua has its ways of being complicated. The interaction of multiple return values with varargs, for example. Or having to use pcall when you want exception handling. Or the distinction between the length and the size of a table. Not to say that these things are bad! Just that you find ugliness in any language if you look for it hard enough.