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Big fan of Lua. I have only poked around at the language, and never really done anything significant with it, but I love how simple and powerful it is. Every ti
by thinkpad20 13y ago
Big fan of Lua. I have only poked around at the language, and never really done anything significant with it, but I love how simple and powerful it is. Every time I break out the lua programming book I wish I were using that at work instead of python. I don't agree with every choice they've made, but it's a great language for sure.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoSame here: I once wrote a bunch of simple plugins for Renoise in LUA which was my first (and so far last) contact with it.. I forget everything about it since then, other than that it was very fun! I spent time learning the Renoise API and figuring out UI stuff, LUA itself just kinda worked. It was like jumping into cold water and finding it rather warm and pleasant.
- jacques_chester 13y agoJust FYI, it's "Lua", not "LUA". It's a word, not an acronym.
- scardine 13y agoLua means moon in Portuguese (the native language of the designers).
- jzwinck 13y agoWhat do you dislike about Python for work?
- copx 13y agoYears ago I read a Lua tutorial but I didn't like the language much. Nowadays I am working on a large 99% Lua code base and I love the language! Lua has a small set of building blocks and only if you try to write something non-trivial in Lua you realize how incredibly well these blocks fit together. It's funny, Lua is the opposite of Go for me there. I was excited about Go after reading the tutorial, but then I tried to seriously use it the experience was underwhelming.