> Lua seems like such a fun, simple, efficient language... but even on HN, people hate on it almost to the point of an absurd meme simply because its 1-based indexes.

> If you search the forums, this fundamental issue is mentioned thousands of times over years and years.

> Which leads me to a naive question: Lua is open sourced. Why hasn't anyone in the world just forked the language to be 0-based? Is it not as simple as it sounds? I don't know what goes into designing and compiling a programming language, so it seems like such a trivial fix for what appears to be the #1 issue for every person out there allergic to Lua.

I wonder how many of those who complain have actually used Lua? Same with all the Perl/PHP haters...