I read this article as talking to people who're (professional?) programmers, who're evaluating Lua as a programming language that they might want to use and are comparing it to things like C / C++ / Python / etc.
But I would be willing to bet money that the vast majority of people who write code in Lua are scripters. Roblox users alone probably outnumber people who're doing general-programming in Lua. For them, things like 1-indexed arrays are a particularly good idea.
I read this article as talking to people who're (professional?) programmers, who're evaluating Lua as a programming language that they might want to use and are comparing it to things like C / C++ / Python / etc.
But I would be willing to bet money that the vast majority of people who write code in Lua are scripters. Roblox users alone probably outnumber people who're doing general-programming in Lua. For them, things like 1-indexed arrays are a particularly good idea.