script coder's wat

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/8680856/Gary_Bernhardt_WAT

well i feel like


plus, im disconnected.

so im trapped between the worlds, alone with my thoughts.

Kudos to whoever ported zombies mode from the game to the lobby!

oh boy, oh boy, the joys of javascript XD

ur face
sorry :(

the entire concept of being able to use almost every combination of datatypes with any operator still makes my head hurt.

quote: the entire concept of being able to use almost every combination of datatypes with any operator still makes my head hurt.

Did you even into Spring?

quote: Did you even into Spring?

I don't agree with this. Lua is one of the best programming languages I've ever used. What's wacky are the individual implementations of Lua bindings in different projects. Spring's is reasonable, but there are some real lemons out there.

Lua = C + JavaScript - brain damage

Most of the WTF?'s mentioned in that link are probably from people who don't understand closures or miss the unintuitive programming idioms like the ternary operator and using numbers as booleans.

I think you misunderstood, or I worded it poorly. I mean that in my experience, people who don't like lua get hung up on specific features it does not support. For example, lua has no ternary operator ( condition ? true : false ) which is commonly used in C, and does not support using numbers in conditionals (if numberOfSomethings then ... ), as commonly cited examples. I was not saying lua uses unintuitive idioms, rather that it *does not support* idioms that are unintuitive to beginners, and this gives experienced programmers reason to put WTF? in a commit message if they don't understand why that is the case.

quote: For example, lua has no ternary operator ( condition ? true : false ) which is commonly used in C, and does not support using numbers in conditionals (if numberOfSomethings then ... )

Lua by nature is itself very similar to a ternary operation.

local value = condition and valueiftrue or valueiffalse
-- only caveat is that valueiftrue doesn't evaluate false

Lua does support numbers (and anything) as conditionals. The difference from other languages is it doesn't evaluate 0 as false. While in C functions are designed to return 0 on an error or not-found scenario for use in a condition, in Lua they instead return false. The resulting usage of the return value is just as concise.