Lua, a Misunderstood Language

Re:Lua, a Misunderstood Language by diego_moita on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:45PM (#25797550)

> Lua is small enough that newbie developers can understand its internals well and keep it in their mind.

This is, by far, Lua's best "feature". If you know programming you can learn 90% of Lua in 15 minutes (metatables and the C stack interface takes more time).

For a language meant to be used by non-programmers this is more than precious, it is essential.

Edit: my favourite Lua-enabled tools:

1) Hammerspoon, an automation tool for OS-X (like Windows' AutoHotkey) https://www.hammerspoon.org/

2) Openresty, Nginx turbo-charged in Lua: https://openresty.org/en/

3) Wireshark, a powerful network traffic analyzer: https://www.wireshark.org/

Many others at: https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua

PS: on Windows I highly recommend the ZeroBrane Studio IDE. It is really fantastic.

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Re:Lua, a Misunderstood Language by pwinwood on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:00AM (#25801497)

> PS: on Windows I highly recommend the ZeroBrane Studio IDE. It is really fantastic.

Recommended by me too. The ZeroBrane Studio IDE is cross platform running well on macOS and Linux.

Disclosure: I am the original author of wxLua which ZeroBrane Studio is built on.

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