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meric · 2017-04-15 19:58:08+00:00

Thanks :-)

What are the syntax features most jarring to you? I suspect it's the ones that's been ported from Lua but I'm not sure.

pzone | karma 1179 | avg karma 2.09 · | 2018-03-19 05:49:03+00:00

Looks like a neat little language. Lua's syntax always appeared ugly to me - or if not ugly, then unnecessarily foreign. Something more Javascript-like lowers that barrier a good bit.

weberc2 | karma 4751 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2017-05-29 23:44:28+00:00

I forgot to emphasize that I'm particular about syntax. I amended my comment accordingly. I also don't like the global-by-default bit, but maybe my ideal language could be a syntax layer atop Lua?

silentbicycle | karma 11689 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2013-07-01 18:56:43+00:00

Thanks. :) I'm still mostly using Lua 5.1.4 most of the time, and I forgot to include that.

mhuffman | karma 2263 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2015-05-12 10:27:54+00:00

Very nice! I was unaware that such a feature-rich editor for Lua existed. Thank you!

animanoir | karma 75 | avg karma 0.59 · | 2021-08-05 20:40:53

Yeha, also that it uses Lua. I think I should try that language; always hear good stuff about it.

fit2rule | karma 3490 | avg karma 0.79 · | 2020-06-04 07:09:36+00:00

Ah yes, that is nice - thanks for the info. So many interesting things using Lua ..

chatmasta | karma 18107 | avg karma 3.55 · | 2018-03-30 11:53:30+00:00

That’s very cool, thanks. I’ll be using it.

Do you write all your system scripts in Lua? How do you like it?

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Zondartul | karma 122 | avg karma 2.54 · | 2023-03-07 13:10:14

From the syntax is sounds like it's just Lua with extra steps.

Arelius | karma 1728 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2012-02-16 19:47:23+00:00

Fantastic, thanks!

I assume you're familiar with parenscript. What are your thoughts on that?

I additionally love the ability to generate lua, I could see that being very useful.

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ttd | karma 311 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2017-06-14 16:08:59+00:00

Thanks! The scripting language is Lua 5.2.

bbmario | karma 294 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2019-10-03 08:48:16

Wish they could improve the language syntax. It's so unnecessarily verbose. Moonscript did a good job improving Lua.

minikomi | karma 3543 | avg karma 2.89 · | 2012-11-13 10:02:34+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

How are you using it? With a lua web framework, or more low level stuff?

edit: great looking site btw.

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shmerl | karma 12092 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2024-06-02 06:16:13

I got exposure to Lua with Cyberpunk 2077 mods and neovim plugins. Some stuff is indeed strange (like array indexes starting from 1 by default), but overall it's easy to use.

Not sure I'd want to use it for something big though.

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snarfy | karma 6644 | avg karma 3.15 · | 2023-03-25 05:36:20

I'm a fan of Lua's implementation. I looked through this source and it seems well written. Nice job :)

brightball | karma 15608 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2018-09-19 14:21:26+00:00

That's interesting. For somebody who's not all that familiar with Lua, what are it's main selling points for something like this?

brianm | karma 825 | avg karma 4.82 · | 2009-01-09 18:29:55+00:00

Lua (the impl) is awesome, Lua (the language) is very pleasent, but the arrays using position instead of offset (start at 1, not 0) thing...

I still love it :-)

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kingosticks | karma 1221 | avg karma 1.19 · | 2018-03-10 07:06:54

Great, thanks, I'll take a look at some of these on Monday. I've only got a few super simple scripts of my own but I use them all the time. A hugely valuable feature and lua is nice and simple to pick up.

concordDance | karma 4533 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2023-07-29 03:19:30

Lua? Really?

That's by far the most unpleasant language I've coded in.

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agentultra | karma 10491 | avg karma 3.58 · | 2014-09-17 14:32:35+00:00

This is amazing! Thanks for the tip. I'm trying this out on my next game. CL is much more powerful than Lua and something I'm more comfortable with as a language. Seems to be nearly as painless integrating too.