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by 90s_dev 391 days ago
> But lua isn't like that. It's not weakly typed like javascript - it's more akin to pythons dynamic duck typing system

What? No, Lua's type system is practically identical to JavaScript's.

Even metatables are extraordinarily similar to prototype chains via __index (though much more powerful since they allow for operator overloading, which I wish JS had).