I'm talking about the core language, which I do find very predictable. You can go crazy with any language. Lua is definitely not worse than Python or JS in this regard.
> No static typing to rest your eye on.
That goes for any dynamically typed language. How is that an argument against Lua in particular?
> Have you read large Lua codebases written by others?
No, because I use it as a scripting language, as intended. I totally agree that one shouldn't use dynamically typed languages for building large applications. But again, this is not specific to Lua.
Oh, as a scripting language you embed into your project so that you can write scripts for it — there is hardly anything better than Lua. The C code is super clean and easy to embed and modify.
But once that project gets passed to next maintainer — I'm not sure I'd pick Lua over Forth or Scheme.
> No static typing to rest your eye on.
That goes for any dynamically typed language. How is that an argument against Lua in particular?
> Have you read large Lua codebases written by others?
No, because I use it as a scripting language, as intended. I totally agree that one shouldn't use dynamically typed languages for building large applications. But again, this is not specific to Lua.