Lua-related technology - Conversations

Anonymous · original post · 2026-07-12 05:27:19

>>25383
damn. I'm sticking to lua 5.1 + FFI subset.

Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 08:06:07

i'm genuinely thankful for this thread. now i know i should never touch lua in my life for any reason whatsoever, as it seems to be another memelang for faggots.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 08:26:34

>>25386
Okay, I'm thankful that you posted this and bumped the thread

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 12:43:02

love2d is really cool. too bad it uses Lua.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 13:42:31

>>25388
Love2d is literally just a collection of Lua bindings for C libraries like box2d and SDL/OpenGL
So really cool my ass. If you're a lua hater then "love2d without Lua" would just be using those libraries directly.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 14:13:40

>>25389
>would just be using those libraries directly
or with some other scripting language which doesn't suck

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 14:24:19

>>25390
Which one?

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 14:31:12

>>25375
It's really fun porting stuff from C or JavaScript. Speaking of JavaScript, that's the language that should be used for embeddable engines instead of Lua. It is just so much better for that purpose. Instead, it's being used server-side and to make desktop OSes. (???) Unfortunately Duktape is slower so Lua gets used instead simply because it is faster.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 14:39:17

>>25376
>t. nocoder

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 14:43:15

>>25391
odin, it has those libraries in the default vendor package

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 20:47:24

Bump

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 21:03:30

>>25393
>>25376
the superior alternative is being able to specify the bounds of the array on allocation
you can start from 0 or 1 or -50 or whatever you want to
t. fortran

(I will admit MAYBE the compiler adds microscopic overhead by starting from a different offset than 1 and idk whether or not this is the case)

also inclusive-inclusive is superior fuck off with your last index not being included

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 21:07:07

>>25395
>>25285
>>25387
don't worry i'm saving this thread forever

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-12 21:28:46

actually you should be using lus (or microlua)
https://github.com/lus-lang/lus
https://github.com/lus-lang/microlua

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 00:51:10

bump
C and Lua. nothing more
>>25398
lua is lua

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 01:35:07

>>25398
>Contributors: loukamb

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 07:47:27

>>25400
qrd?

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 12:51:17

>>25401
MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 13:00:24

>>25285
pythoids will NEVER understand how cozy it is to program in a language without importing a a Schindlers list of libraries to "compete" with elegant simplicity and functionality of core lua.

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 13:13:58

>>25285
>>game development
>https://love2d.org/
can LLMs into this shit? I do like how it's sort of simple to set up but it might be too obscure

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 13:15:40

>>25404
LLMs should have it in their training data, love2d is even less obscure than something like raylib.
But you can just give the docs to your AI slop agent anyway

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 13:28:13

>>25405
well yeah it's just that docs bloat context
that said python might need a lot of boilerplate to get what this love thing offers intrinsically so it's not so easy to decide

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Anonymous · reply · 2026-07-13 20:16:41

I used to love Lua. I read the manual in bed at least once a month. I built a scriptable game engine in C using SDL2 and Lua for making the actual games once. I also used it on Garry's Mod a lot. But it's been a while since I've touched it.

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