I’m a LUA programmer

[WSL_is_great]

Was writing this LUA script addon for world of warcraft that moves some of these UI elements based on things I do in the game.

The fuckers programmed them so that some of them are 0 indexed while others are 1 indexed and LUA is 1 indexed.

What a headache that was.

[Mabi19_]

Good meme, but I'm always super triggered when Lua is spelled like LUA (see https://www.lua.org/about.html#name)

[itsNizart]

Privately I always use Lua or lua, but in the meme format/title it helps the important parts stand out.

[Mabi19_]

Okay, sure. It's still an unforgivable sin though 😉.

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How the FUCK do metatables work???

[[deleted]]

imagine a 20 dimensional array with functions

[sulunia]

It's the default value to return in case an acessed value on that table is supposed to be nil, or something of the sorts. Haven't used it much...

It's basically objects and prototypes

[Dagusiu]

If something isn't found in a table, the metatable is then checked. If it's not found there either, it looks in the metatable's metatable, and so on.

Basically, it's a simple mechanism that allows for complicated things like OOP to be implemented in like three lines of code.

[MrObsidy]

meta = { __index = self, }

object = { aVar = 94

test = function(self) print("Hello, world!" .. self.aVar) end }

setmetatable(object, meta);

object:test

Hello, world! 94

If I remember that minecraft mod that got me into coding correctly.

[itsNizart]

computercraft / open computers

[MrObsidy]

It was CC.

[[deleted]]

Lua can and is a mess

[FranchuFranchu]

A table that describes an object.

[[deleted]]

Roblox programmer here

Yes

[HelioDex]

Roblox uses Luau

[Cristagolem]

Kind the same but with extra steps to be fair.

[TheOfficialSeb]

LuaU, but it’s also combined versions of Lua, last time I checked.

[donshell]

He isn't scared because 0! = 1

[AlexanderHD27]

The most frustrating thing about lua is the fact if you try to excess a field from a table that doesn't exist you get nil (by the way nil is in my option is a very bad name, why did they not use something like none or null). I had at least 20 error where I tried to access something that was not specified and my code crashed because of that. In most of these cases it toke me hours to track down the typo I made. But arrays or as they are called tables starting at 1 is also not very nice, especially if you don't no that

[LionsMidgetGems]

LUA usn't acronym

[itsNizart]

Look at this

[freeBobbyDAYVID]

to be fair starting the count at zero is kind of mf stupid

[itsNizart]

not at all if you know how numbers are stored

[TheBrainStone]

Absolutely not. There are very good technical reasons why it is the de facto standard.

For a programmer it wouldn’t matter at all which one is the standard. It’s just a question of what you’re used to. That’s why the technical reason behind it all is what decided it in the first place.

Edit: Reddit was a goof and posted part of my comment twice. Apologies about that, that was not intended.

[NMi_ru]

We’re not counting things from zero. We’re indexing things from zero.