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I have almost the same feeling as you: I'd love most of the Lua more with zero indexing and more of C like syntax (without these "end" literals, I really like C math-formula-like minimalism). I don't care however if arrays and dicts are the same behind the scenes.

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Ya the weird case we ran into with the dict / list was when unmarshaling some JSON which had an empty list `[]` then marshaling it back to JSON you end up with `{}`. Which is pretty broken and given the prevalence of JSON as an on the wire format is seriously disappointing.

Not sure if there's an easy fix to that apart from using `null` instead of empty lists.

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