Lack of types hurts. Then there's the 1-base indexing that bothers many. The whole "tables" concept is kinda weird—and this makes more complex kinds of programm

Lack of types hurts. Then there's the 1-base indexing that bothers many. The whole "tables" concept is kinda weird—and this makes more complex kinds of programming difficult/unergonomic. Luckily like JavaScript, there are a wealth of languages that compile to Lua to smooth over missing language features. One outlier feature is that Lua supports tail call optimization.