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One of the most popular and compelling real world uses of Lua is for embedded scripting. It's easy to embed, it's easy to use, for a scripting language it's bla
by dwc 9y ago
One of the most popular and compelling real world uses of Lua is for embedded scripting. It's easy to embed, it's easy to use, for a scripting language it's blazing fast.
I'm sure Lua has other sweet spots, but that's the one I'm most familiar with.
- spanishgum 9y agoI was introduced to Lua via writing a Wireshark plugin for packet verification. It was hard in the beginning but dove right into working with a C backend. I'd say that's an approachable side project if you want to explore Lua.
- kemayo 9y agoI've mostly experienced it through World of Warcraft -- it's embedded there as the language used to write the game's user interface[1]. Then it's exposed to third-party authors as an API, so they can write addons for the game. It's also embedded in Wikipedia[2]. Complex templates can be written with Lua modules, rather than relying on wikitext. [1]: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/World_of_Warcraft_API http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/World_of_Warcraft_API [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto