I think the key here is that people ALWAYS complain about Lua indexing from one. Aside from that, not having a huge standard library is the second complaint. Th

I think the key here is that people ALWAYS complain about Lua indexing from one. Aside from that, not having a huge standard library is the second complaint. There are debates that come up all the time on the Lua list about what would be best, but I think those are really the main complaints people have. Large standard libraries would mean huge potential for security holes in this case; they've locked features down to only support things that they could make secure. And starting from 1 you can get used to. LuaJIT doesn't even REQUIRE you start from 1; it'll optimize arrays you start from zero. And even vanilla Lua will accept 0 as a table index; it just won't treat it as an array (for ipairs() or length). But if you start asking people for complaints about JavaScript, you will find people complaining about operators acting wonky, auto-type-conversion problems from hell, and even odder things like [1]. Lua is just a cleaner design. I am stuck using JavaScript when I want to work on the web, but knowing what an elegant language CAN be makes me enjoy it a lot less. And don't get me started on how ugly NodeJS is because JavaScript doesn't have coroutines... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401074