It is inevitable that people complain about Lua's 1-based "tables" which serve as both arrays and hash maps.
I usually encourage people to remember the practical origins of 0-based arrays when thinking in terms of pointers, where 0-based counting is useful in terms of talking about offsets from a point in memory, as contrasted to 1-based counting where you are primarily talking about quantities of collections.
Lua is a great language. My only wish is that it was easier to do multithreaded work in it. Unfortunately, this is not the case without some significant architectural forethought.
I usually encourage people to remember the practical origins of 0-based arrays when thinking in terms of pointers, where 0-based counting is useful in terms of talking about offsets from a point in memory, as contrasted to 1-based counting where you are primarily talking about quantities of collections.
Lua is a great language. My only wish is that it was easier to do multithreaded work in it. Unfortunately, this is not the case without some significant architectural forethought.