[giraffe_lady]

> Its simplicity makes it remarkably easy to write clean maintainable code.

Not based on my experience with even just medium-sized lua codebases. Anything over a few thousand lines and in continuous development has been a mess. Not lua's fault per se¹ but the only thing in my experience that compares is what you'd see in pre-laravel php. Every significant codebase is a messy ad hoc one-off framework in its own right.

A lot of people, as always when it comes up, are speaking of their recreational, small-project or config system lua code. Which is fine, it's good for that. But I have a lot of professional experience working in live production lua codebases and my experiences with it are different over there.

¹ A lot of large lua projects started as someone's first lua project or maybe even first code project at all, which is a tremendous accomplishment for a language but not a smooth ride for maintainers taking over those projects.