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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by TylerE on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @11:59AM (#37498471)
What is so fun about lua? The few times I've come into contact with it I've been...less than thrilled with what I've seen. Looks like a lobotomized version of a language I'd like, with ugly, verbose syntax.
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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by brooke2k on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:17PM (#37499100)
it's kind of like lisp's ugly cousin. Super-duper simple at its core, built around a single data structure (tables instead of lisp's lists), and flexible enough, thanks to meta-tables, that you can build extensions on top of it to fit it to what you need
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Re:LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua by keyle on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:05PM (#37502830)
It's a lot more consistent and predictable than Javascript.
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