Re: pairs and ipairs

[Mouse <mouse@...>]

> This way every production code used in Nginx, Cloudflare, every editor plugi$

Actually, I would say, please _don't_ write it in Rust - or, if you do,
make sure you don't buy into Rust's "UTF-8 is the One True Character
Encoding" dogma.  It is hellishly difficult to use Rust for anything
involving strings without hardwiring a mandate that the strings be
UTF-8 strings into the result; you end up having to reimplement
whatever fraction you want of the string support for byte strings.  (I
tried to write a file-manipulation program in Rust and, being unwilling
to make it fall over on filenames that aren't UTF-8, ended up learning
more than I wanted to about this.)

Lua treats strings as octet strings rather than mandating a character
set or encoding - providing, but not imposing, UTF-8 support.  It would
be sad to see such an extension language lose that.

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