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Lua is far simpler, and still easy to learn. Yet it's powerful enough to be used in "real" projects (e.g. Photoshop Lightroom).
by jzwinck 8y ago
Lua is far simpler, and still easy to learn. Yet it's powerful enough to be used in "real" projects (e.g. Photoshop Lightroom).
- SquareWheel 8y agoI feel Lua has a lot of anti-patterns which makes transitioning to/from other languages difficult. Tables are unintuitive versus other data structures, structure syntax varies from other C-languages, and oddly it uses one-based indexing. Lua is nice in that it's easy to embed into existing projects, and has an established userbase in game modding communities (Garry's Mod, Minecraft computer mods).
- gerdesj 8y ago"Lua is far simpler" - citation needed 8) At some stage I will have to get to grips with Lua (Mediawki) but I believe your comment is completely arse about face. No, I wont give any more justification than my assertion.
- zokier 8y agoUnqualified simplicity is useless metric. Brainfuck is about as simple as a language can be, and people can learn it in an afternoon.
- jzwinck 8y agoThat's why I qualified it by mentioning a huge commercial product which uses it extensively.
- bsder 8y agoLua comes in quite high on the "Most Dreaded" list of programming languages and has 1-based indices in a world of 0-basing. Not exactly something I would recommend ...