Lua Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?

  I would start at https://lua.org/ I'm creating a set of libraries to make Lua into a (still lightweight) application language https://github.com/civboot/civlua. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• How Programming Languages Got Their Names

  Lua means 'Moon' in Portuguese, as it is also their logo: https://lua.org. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Where can I learn lua

  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 2 years ago

• A Weekly Class for PICO-8 Beginners

  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 2 years ago

• data types in function definition

  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 2 years ago

• Why doesn't python fix the "off by one" in ranges?

  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 2 years ago

• I would like to learn lua to start making some simple lua scripts for online modding. Where should I start?

  Many people recommend to learn lua before starting with scripting, but I think this is a bit unnecessary if you actually know other languages. Source: over 2 years ago

• Looking for a Lua dev to help with our open source project.

  Hello cohenan1941, I don’t unfortunately know how to use Lua with word of Warcraft. However I can help your project with any bare bones lua. Here are some great sites to learn lua: Lua.org Tutorialspoint. Source: over 2 years ago

• Using for i, v in pairs inside a while loop

  Https://lua.org is the official Lua site and has some really useful info so it’s worth reading up on. Source: over 2 years ago

• can someone add tracers to this ESP

  Why not do it yourself learn Lua today. Source: over 2 years ago

• Complete Interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy - Including some questions from Reddit

  While the Lua.org website is simple and easy to use, are there any plans to modernize the site and make it more mobile-friendly? Source: almost 3 years ago

• Which do you prefer to write?

  I'd like to know which you prefer to write more: Wren Or Lua As a scripting language for configuration. Like you configure awesome in lua. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• Upcoming interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy

  Please stop this stuck in the mud nonsense. Anyone stumbling upon lua.org might think the project is dead already. The material is great, close to the best, but its presentation is pure shite. Not mobile friendly (what kinds of device do you think the majority of people in the Global South use?). We live in a world of code highlighting, none of that in PiL. We live in a world where Fengari allows Lua to run in the... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Folia is a minimalistic authoring tool for narrative games

  With Folia, you can write interactive, branching stories using a simple syntax based on Lua. Folia presents your game in a two-page 'storybook' format, with one leaf dedicated to a scrolling log of text, and the other displaying images. You can make your story as simple or complex as you like, with the full power of Lua available whenever you need it. When you're done, you can upload your finished game to itch.io... Source: almost 3 years ago

• AstroVim is an aesthetic/feature-rich Neovim config

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• Want to learn.

  Lua.org should cover most of your basic needs. Here is a beginner-friendly introduction to the language: https://www.lua.org/pil/1.html. Source: over 3 years ago

• Need help making a script

  The thing is: I'm one of those people who will get bored of the basics that are pissing me off so the thing with lua.org wont be useful, and I don't think people in developer.roblox.com will be like "ah yes we will help you make hacks". Source: over 3 years ago

• Need help making a script

  Well you can get more info at lua.org and from developer.roblox.com. Source: over 3 years ago

• Advice on learning how to code

  Try to use the documentation directly. A few useful sources are https://lua.org and https://developer.roblox.com. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Operating systems, c programming, useful tools.

  Semi-random, but I would recommend reading, compiling, and trying to understand the Lua codebase. Source: almost 4 years ago

• What's something that you have been wanting to learn , but always failed to do so?

  I'd reccomend using Lua as a first language, the syntax is simple, the interpreter is fast af (even faster with LuaJIT, the just-in-time compiler for Lua), very readable code, the libraries don't break, and is very small and portable, and is popularly used in the game development industry. Source: about 4 years ago