Regarding tables--I just don't want to deal with tables any more. You get some extra flexibility, but the cost is just too damn steep--it's like going to a rest

Regarding tables--I just don't want to deal with tables any more. You get some extra flexibility, but the cost is just too damn steep--it's like going to a restaurant and getting escorted to the kitchen so you can design your own menu. I just want to eat, damn it. > Many people don’t realise that Lua is extremely nimble. Lua can be built by compilers using the c89 standard (even though the default is c99 IIRC), using very little assumptions about the hardware it is running on. There are other languages with similar size and complexity to Lua, which are also made in C.