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		ptx 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejls... Lua's variables being global by default seems somewhat error-prone.

gucci-on-fleek 1 day ago [–]

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 })

[0]: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/manual.html#2.2

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