I 100% agree. Lua is a small and elegant language, with two unambiguous severe flaws: global scope as default and one based indexing (one based indexing might b

I 100% agree. Lua is a small and elegant language, with two unambiguous severe flaws: global scope as default and one based indexing (one based indexing might be fine in other contexts, but not as some C/C++-glue language). The global scope thing can be mostly worked around with tooling, but the 1-based indexing (which in the context of luajit's seamless FFI and terra really means both 1 and 0-based indexing) adds so much friction that it's well worth giving up on or patching existing lua libraries. Additionally, the lua ecosystem is already fractured (luajit is 5.1 + some selective ports of 5.2 stuff) and my feeling is that making this fracture complete will probably work out better in the longer run.