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Personally, I find the syntax horrible. A good few years ago, I wrote reasonably complex stuff in Lua (a game addon, you wouldn't have guessed, right? :P), and
by madhouse 15y ago
Personally, I find the syntax horrible. A good few years ago, I wrote reasonably complex stuff in Lua (a game addon, you wouldn't have guessed, right? :P), and it was quite painful to do that.
It doesn't help that it's embedded into larger applications most of the time, which do not allow easy debugging, if at all.
- martijn_himself 15y agoThat's really interesting. Obviously, I've only started reading the docs and have no real-world experience with the language. I hadn't even thought about debugging. Do you know an alternative language that you would prefer to use in that context? Do you think the reason for its popularity in game programming is because there is not really any alternative?