First off, there is pretty decent documentation right there available on the website for Corona. The entire API is documented most with examples included. Additionally, there’s a guide for how to use Corona, a build guide, and an installation/setup guide.

For lua programming, there are tons of example code and tutorials out there… a quick trip to google will find those. How hard is that?

Ansca provides, at present count, some 20 different sample apps all available for you to download, modifiy, and work through. Not to mention the tutorial which walks you through a lot of the sample apps.

Why you take issue with arrays vs tables is beyond me. You seriously need to actually get the blue Programming in Lua book (or even the free version that is currently available online) if you don’t know how to get the count of elements in a table. It’s trivial to do and you certainly don’t need a specialized function to count them. Seriously, you need to learn lua, you indicate you’ve read the book but I find that hard to believe. Perhaps you are reading the 5.0 book instead of the 5.1 book (blue PiL)… the bPiL is certainly up to date.

Yes, there are some parts of the lua spec which are not included for various reasons. You complain about dofile… why not simply require it and encapsulate your “dofile file” in a table or function? Then you can just call the resulting function or execute the table. There are plenty of very easy ways around not having access to dofile and to indicate you spent hours trying to make dofile work? Come on… that’s pretty ridiculous.

There are some things that are missing, but this is a relatively young tool and the roadmap clearly shows the future will be quite bright.

If you’re looking to Corona as a “forms” type app solution, you need to do some better research. There are several frameworks out there which would be much better for forms-based Apps.