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[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 2 January 2020 at 20:05:18 UTC, lithium iodate wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 January 2020 at 19:12:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> I'll just throw out that Lua has no integer type:
>> https://www.lua.org/pil/2.3.html
>>
>> I've never had a reason to avoid integers for performance 
>> reasons, but I suppose there are cases in which it's 
>> relevant...
>
> Lua 5.3 (released five years ago) has got integers. The text 
> you are linking is 17 years old.

Okay, I'm not a Lua expert, obviously. The point still stands 
that you can have a successful programming language without even 
having an integer type.