Blog: 2025-02-22

Lua is quirkier than I realized

• 1-based indexing
• iterate over string is kinda tricky ....
• luarocks doesn't add itself to path
• no builtin formatter for table
• no built-in debugger ??
• repl doesn't have history
• no socket support in stdlib (no stdlib?)
• blocking io by default (for a project like socket)
• no continue in loops - gotta use goto or function call (function call good)
  • actually continue is just a kind of goto ... function calls better
• lua repl local variables are not accessible after the command ends
  • actually sorta lisp like
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74630221/why-luas-builtin-repl-cannot-access-previously-delcared-local-vars