If you haven't heard of Lua, it's a really small programming language. Maybe you have heard of it, but never had a reason to learn it because your ...
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Minus: Arrays start at 1 ;)
Ha! Yeah, there's a few weird things in Lua, but once you learn that, then it opens your mind to the fact that not all languages are created equal. Now, if we were to not use a language because it had something weird, we'd all have dropped javascript by now :p lol
whaaaaa...... mind blown.
Another reason - Nmap is written in Lua; customize your Nmap!
That's true. Look like a movie hacker with a little lua :D
Yeah, why not? :) Btw I was joking a little - it's great to customize your nmap, but Lua is also good general scripting language. Sadly, not much used in comparison with Python/Ruby.
I’ll admit that Lua was actually my first programming language.
Great post Jeremy,
For me as Brazilian is an honor see people write about Lua <3
I'd like to recommend exercism.io, I think that it can be useful to improve the learning.
Minecraft with computercraft mod has computers and robots(turtle) which are programmed in Lua to do things like dig a strip mine or control machinery with redstone.
I don't like Lua as a programming language. It is nice to use to extend a language. I like using LuaD to add runtime configuration and logic. The simplicity of the structures and something else I don't know haw to describe is really cool.
It's definitely not a primary language for me. Not one of those "do everything" tools, but it has it's place. Almost like that weird screw driver you use on faucets. Most people never need one, but the second you do, it's a nice thing to have.
I don't agree. Lua as a programming language has all it takes : garbage collection, iterators, lambdas, speed, simple but powerful types...
It just lacks a better standard library to be able to "do more".
Lua is definitely not limited as a language. I find that it's focus on being a configuration language to create some not so desirable synthetic choices.
I would probably much rather write a parser for Lua than yaml though.
I have for the 3rd time looked at Lua but this time with an open mind. I'm interested in webdev. I see LuaRocks and some JavaScript or C like familiarity but also some quirks. I am very excited to try writing something, but I'm not sure what.
Making a game love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started is fun way to start. Or just start by making a small console app and getting that to work. That will help you feel out the flow of lua.
Very nice idea! Segway: what is the dotnotation in this function declaration
function love.load().Lua has 2 different type of notations. Since it's not an object oriented language, you can think of
.like a class method, and:like an instance method. Solove.load()vslove:load(). Lua basically determines whatselfis based on how you call the functions (if that makes sense)..It's been a little while since I commented about wanting to learn Lua. I lovit ha, see what I did... Anyway I'l start with what I dislike.
What I love, Lua is tiny, fast and I can change it as I like. I'm currently hijacking V8 to launch the majority of my node js web app in Lua. That includes using the c binding directly from node with node require and a js proxy.
Because why not, it's fun.
Awesome! Yeah, I agree with the
~=thing. That throws me off all the time especially since my main languages (Ruby & Crystal) use=~for regex matching lol. But I don't work in curly brace languages, so for me I love that it doesn't have those :DSounds like you found a great use for using Lua! Thanks for sharing.
Recently I wrote a script to authenticate users against Redis with Lua on Nginx. The result was great in simplicity and performance. The code is available on my Github github.com/waldyrfelix/nginx_lua_auth
I was introduced to Lua in ComputerCraft, a Minecraft mod. Most recently I've been diving into the Advent of Code challenges in it, although I'm falling behind. I find it a flexible language to use when solving fun problems.
I want to learn it I'm learning ERB, And I just learned the basics of INK. I would like to learn Lau where can I start?
When you say ERB, do you mean in ruby? I'm not sure what
INKis... but you can start here to learn Lua tylerneylon.com/a/learn-lua/Yes, I started learning Rails and Middleman but then I hit a wall. I was like whats ERB? I got it but not I have to learn just how the layouts work? Like how to I make a picture go into the place I want it to go with <%yeild%> I have not found a place that explained how outside of the super basic layouts. And INK is cool inklestudios.com/ink/ thanks so much for your response.
Not really the place for these, but ERB is just HTML where you can use ruby code to extend, and dynamically generate HTML. If you don't know HTML that well, then you should start there. Placing an image is as easy as just using
<img src="" >where you want it. The only difference being that yoursrcattribute has to be dynamic based on the asset pipeline or however you serve up your images. Rails also gives you theimage_taghelper method to make it more ruby-like.That ink looks cool.
Lau looks like a really good language, I interested in starting to learn it it seems that you you can do alot with it
We started using Lua for Alloverse, an app platform for collaborative workspace in VR/AR - and so much easier! Loving it!
Lua is a great language, only thing I don't like about it is that arrays start at 1 instead of 0
I've started my first line of code in Lua to build game using Corona SDK :D
for video games is behind c ++ or c #, I think execelent that has a lot of weight, very strong in video games
wezterm use lua as configuration.
Also, the Luajit Lua implementation is very fast.
Kong is made with Lua.
Moonscript and Haxe transpile to Lua.
moonscript.org/
haxe.org