Lua VS Crystal (programming language)

Lua means 'Moon' in Portuguese, as it is also their logo: https://lua.org. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

The official lua website is a pretty good place to go! As well as lua users & tutorials point has a really good tutorial for lua too! The official site may be hard to understand at time (it was for me at least) but that’s why I gave you the other two. they’ll explain it simpler/better than the official site may sometimes. Hope this helps! Source: about 1 year ago

1) Who Should Sign Up? - People with no, little, or intermediate skills in programming or PICO-8. 2) What Will We Cover? - Fantasy Console Paradigm: The Full Overview of What PICO-8 can do. - Lua and the uses of its modified API within PICO-8. Programming, 101. 3) What to Expect - A full game all your own! - Brought together in a 4-8 classes, in live teaching sessions in which you can interact with... Source: about 1 year ago

I have tried a few thins but no luck and found nothing on the web, also looks as if lua.org main forums no longer exist. Source: over 1 year ago

Not at all! Lua, for instance, starts indexing at 1. I don't like it personally, but Lua obviously exists and is quite popular. Source: over 1 year ago

I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

    # A very basic HTTP server.

- Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

If you're interested, take a look at Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/)! - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago. If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well. Source: 5 months ago

Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything. My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting. I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago