Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax

Re:Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax by mingodad on Sunday December 30, 2018 @02:56PM (#18790984)

The general idea is to be able to reuse code as much as possible, and C/C++/Java/Javascript style syntax make a lot of code available and if we ditch the 1 based index in favor of 0 based it makes it even easier.

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Re:Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax by mkl on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:57PM (#18792080)

It looks like it's still 1-based currently, is that right? 1-based arrays have been the biggest obstacle to me using Lua.

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Re:Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax by spc476 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:46PM (#18792520)

I did years of assembly, then C, and now Lua. I've yet to find the 1-based indexing to be an issue, and that's even having written a few C modules to manipulate Lua arrays. What is it about the 1-based arrays that is so off-putting?

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Re:Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax by mingodad on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:51AM (#18793569)

Again the point is easy code reuse.

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Re:Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax by mingodad on Monday December 31, 2018 @04:56AM (#18793872)

Yes you are right it's still 1 based to allow easy conversion from actual existing Lua projects.

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