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The singular Lua beef is I don't like that code blocks can begin with a variety of things like:

while true do
  -- do something
end

for i,v in ipairs(some_table) do
  -- do something
end

local function tmo(argument)
  -- do something
end

That makes it difficult for me to jump back and forth from the beginning of such a block to the end.

I mean, perhaps someone has augmented vim so that one can make such a jump easily the way one can with curly braces, but I did some searching for a such a couple times and came up empty. I'd try writing such myself, but there are a bunch of cases to cover, and suspect it's a gnarly enough problem for me to consider it more trouble than its worth.

And yet every time I need to be able to do that, it's a considerable amount of trouble.

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~tffb wrote (thread):

computers speak Pig Latin to me, hence why I do not learn programming languages. I like computer science, but melding my brain to GoLang, C, Lua or anything else seems like a lot of hyper specific learning with zero reward long or short term. Sysadmin is as far as I'll go with fussing with computers, can get plenty done there, kill plenty of time.

Props to all who partake