Comment by caligian

Far from defending the lang's honour. There are many noteworthy things about lua. Firstly it encourages you to use query-able data structures. Lack of first class objects makes marshalling extremely easy. This is similar to using elixir which only as dicts, lists, tuples and structs. Arguably elixir is even simpler than lua when it comes to describing data because of lack of ANY OOP features that makes the object opaque with getters and setters