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I've been wanting to pick up lua for ages. My only issue, as always, is where to start. Is there a runtime I can install where I can start creating with lua? Cr

I've been wanting to pick up lua for ages. My only issue, as always, is where to start. Is there a runtime I can install where I can start creating with lua? Cross platform, windows and Linux? That will allow someone with no c/c++ experience to start doing stuff with it?

longor1996 2y ago
Perhaps redbean might be of interest? It's a web server with all the batteries included, scripted via lua. https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/
krapp 2y ago
Love2D is popular (https://love2d.org/ https://love2d.org/) Also Lua binaries are available here (https://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/ https://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/) And a big list of Lua frameworks (https://github.com/uhub/awesome-lua https://github.com/uhub/awesome-lua) I'd suggest working with LuaJIT as well because of the C API (you can easily use something like SDL and build metatypes around them) with the caveat that it's stuck at an older version of Lua[0,1]. [0] https://luajit.org/ https://luajit.org/ [1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT
Red_Tarsius 2y ago
I have used Lua a long time ago and I don't remember ever touching C/C++. You can even make simple games without ever going low level thanks to https://love2d.org/ https://love2d.org/! If I recall, most https://stabyourself.net/ https://stabyourself.net/ games are based on Love2d. If you're using Linux/MacOS, you can copy-paste these commands on the terminal and you should be settled: curl -L -R -O https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.6.tar.gz tar zxf lua-5.4.6.tar.gz cd lua-5.4.6 make all test You should find the lua executable inside the lua-5.4.6/src folder.
gatane 2y ago
There are also "fantasy consoles". Most of them use Lua+their own api for dealing with the virtual console internals. * PICO-8 (paid, 8$) https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php * TIC80 (opensource, supports more langs like python, scheme, so on) https://tic80.com/ https://tic80.com/ Have fun!
vitiral 2y ago
I would start at https://lua.org/ https://lua.org/ I'm creating a set of libraries to make Lua into a (still lightweight) application language https://github.com/civboot/civlua https://github.com/civboot/civlua

longor1996 2y ago

Perhaps redbean might be of interest? It's a web server with all the batteries included, scripted via lua. https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/

krapp 2y ago

Love2D is popular (https://love2d.org/ https://love2d.org/) Also Lua binaries are available here (https://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/ https://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/) And a big list of Lua frameworks (https://github.com/uhub/awesome-lua https://github.com/uhub/awesome-lua) I'd suggest working with LuaJIT as well because of the C API (you can easily use something like SDL and build metatypes around them) with the caveat that it's stuck at an older version of Lua[0,1]. [0] https://luajit.org/ https://luajit.org/ [1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT

Red_Tarsius 2y ago

I have used Lua a long time ago and I don't remember ever touching C/C++. You can even make simple games without ever going low level thanks to https://love2d.org/ https://love2d.org/! If I recall, most https://stabyourself.net/ https://stabyourself.net/ games are based on Love2d. If you're using Linux/MacOS, you can copy-paste these commands on the terminal and you should be settled: curl -L -R -O https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.6.tar.gz tar zxf lua-5.4.6.tar.gz cd lua-5.4.6 make all test You should find the lua executable inside the lua-5.4.6/src folder.

gatane 2y ago

There are also "fantasy consoles". Most of them use Lua+their own api for dealing with the virtual console internals. * PICO-8 (paid, 8$) https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php * TIC80 (opensource, supports more langs like python, scheme, so on) https://tic80.com/ https://tic80.com/ Have fun!

vitiral 2y ago

I would start at https://lua.org/ https://lua.org/ I'm creating a set of libraries to make Lua into a (still lightweight) application language https://github.com/civboot/civlua https://github.com/civboot/civlua