What about Lua? The language is very minimal, memory safe, and has Pascal-like s...

ptx · 2026-02-01T09:41:06 1769938866

Lua's variables being global by default seems somewhat error-prone.

gucci-on-fleek · 2026-02-01T09:47:09 1769939229

Agreed, but the recently-released v5.5 fixes that [0], and it's fairly easy to fix this in older versions with the following snippet

  setmetatable(_G, { __newindex = false, __index = false })

andrewstuart · 2026-02-01T11:45:26 1769946326

verything is an off by one error in Lua.

gucci-on-fleek · 2026-02-01T12:02:55 1769947375

Or conversely, everything is an off-by-one error in every other language :)

ahartmetz · 2026-02-01T16:44:17 1769964257

*everythin