Hello Lua community and Lua team,
It’s true this would be breaking, but Lua
has traditionally not been afraid of breaking backwards
compatibility in some important things, even in 5.x versions.
Since this is a bigger jump, I’m recommending it for Lua 6.
I’m well aware of the benefits of
1-indexing, but at this point in the human-wide history of
software, roughly 30 years after Lua came out, practically
every other language uses 0-indexing, and practically every
programmer must become familiar with it at some point.
Even when using Lua interop with other
libraries, Lua-only users will have to eventually learn
0-indexing with all probability.
Plus, there are unique advantages to
0-indexing, e.g. offset=0 for first item, which is useful in
countless situations.
However this request will be received, it’s
not my intention to start a flame war or debate. I’ve made my
case, and I have no further points to make. Thanks for
reading.
By the way, thanks for creating and
maintaining a great language. It’s especially fun to use in
Pico8 and Love2d.
Regards,
Steven Degutis
