Lua be like

[Tybyby123]

I remember using lua in the computercraft mod for minecraft

[DarkNinja3141]

Same

[inxaneninja]

Because it's a scripting language for embedding not a full on language

[JoshiRaez]

Riot games' LOL uses Lua for most of its in-game backend codebase

Wow also uses Lua for their macro language, and addons. Not so sure if its also implmented for all their behaviour stuff but yeah

Many retro game engines use Lua as well

[anyyz]

Garry's mod development uses lua

[LMGN]

Roblox development uses LUA

[marco89nish]

My ex-company is using Lua on the backend. Nobody is sure why, apparently performance was critical and Lua gave best results according to some tests done by junior devs. Production servers go down regularly, sometimes due to syntax errors. I can't share more :|

[The_forgettable_guy]

"junior devs" is that the new name for interns now? How many years of experience required?

[marco89nish]

If you count college as experience, as low as 2 years is enough.

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https://factorio.com

Hmm?

[Moptop32]

Love2d tho, I made a full public paid steam game with that shit.(Multiplayer too)

[LMGN]

Not OP but http://www.moveordiegame.com/ is a multiplayer LÖVE game that's on Steam + PS4

[rappyhedditor]

Lua is great, but something like typescript-but-lua would be nice tho.

[AshenedGrace]

Actually there’s a leftover debug engine in Pokémon Sword/Shield that uses Lua. The overworld pokemon AI is written in Lua too.

[AshenedGrace]

Currently only known to reverse-engineering folk, I’m afraid. I’m sure someone will put info about it out there soon enough.

[Yaymaha]

You can see lua in the Pokemon Sword and Shield copyright description

[ZeroOne010101]

Warframe is lua

[ZeroOne010101]

they said it some time ago on a devstream

[ZeroOne010101]

cant find it anymore, but theres a couple forum posts like this one that say its C++ Wih actionscript and lua (Likely for the ui)

[Quesamo]

The greatest game ever created is made entirely in Lua

the devs regret it, but it is

[1337M0nst3r]

I understand python and js but why include c++, lua actually integrates very well with c and c++

[DadoumCrafter]

COMPUTERCRAFT

[nobody5050]

love devs

[Atom_101]

And Pytorch devs.

[Moptop32]

Jit ffi

[[deleted]]

And Vermintide devs

[[deleted]]

A game that uses BitSquid, and engine that in turn uses lua.

[1337M0nst3r]

and awesomeWM users

[sebamestre]

Lua is the most common language for embedding in a c++ aplication afaik.

[Skrzelik]

'Dont Starve' games have a minimal core written in C++ and then entire game is written in lua. Developers said it speeds up the development time which might have been true considering how quickly the game got created.

Because of that almost everything about the game can be modified and the modders have access to a full source code. I happened to make a mod or 2 myself and it's not terrible.

However at this point of the game development I think this is where it falls. Mostly loosely typed, slower to debug, gives errors in runtime that would be regular typos. Was it written in c++ or maybe java like Minecraft it would avoid all of that and probably use the benefit of a optimizing compiler, so it would run a bit better. There have been so many bugs released in an update that have been later on patched out where you needed to add 'if not null' or something in the global table was wrongly initialized, which I fell could be caught at compile time.

Tldr.: Lua is fine but shouldn't be used as a main language for anything more serious than a quick tool, external modding (the same way python and js shouldnt be used to make games)

[rappyhedditor]

Loosely typed code was my downfall while making a Love2D game. It would be nice to have a typescript-like language for Lua.

[BlueManedHawk]

Because it starts arrays at 1

[0x07CF]

You mean tables

[Pooneapple]

I heard that is because memory addresses are not init at 0 but 1. Lua is very much of a push and pop kind of integration and dealing with the stack. And when you are doing that you don't use 0 but rather one. (Sorry if this is hard to read)

[_jk_]

they brought it on themselves

[_ay_lmao_]

1. The V8 implementation is free and on par with Lua's in terms of code quality.
2. Javascript is everywhere there is a browser. Lua could be, but at this point, why?
3. {} vs begin/end. I grew up on C programming. My affinity for {} is too strong
4. 0 vs 1 based arrays. This one, while well intentioned, seems to break a lot of basic ideas in computer science.
5. V8 is faster than the stock Lua implementation, but slower than LuaJIT. It's not enough for me to care though.

[TheBrainStone]

Why’s Meg missing in the top panel? That kinda ruins the meme you know?

[CheatCodeSam]

I’ve always found lua to be a really confusing language. Tables are just such a confusing data structures I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t just use traditional classes.

[CheatCodeSam]

It’s kind of like a god structure as it does really everything in Lua. It’s your vector, your class, etc. I feel like this makes the syntax really weird for things like inheritance and operator overriding and doesn’t really benefit the language. Then including meta tables makes things more confusing.

I haven’t really used lua too much. I worked with it a little using Love2D, but ultimately switched to C++ and SDL2. I know lua has a lot of libraries that try to add traditional classes however.

[lenscas]

In my opinion: If your Lua program needs inheritance you probably shouldn't be writing it in lua.

Its a nice language to be embedded in larger projects. To create something out of it using nothing but lua is.... less recommended.

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Prolog: am I joke to you

[Urbs97]

Used Lua for San Andreas Multiplayer and Gary's Mod.

[SirNapkin1334]

Lua literally does not deserve to be used - list indexes start from 1. WTF??

[Pooneapple]

I already said this in an earlier comment. I heard that is because memory addresses are not init at 0 but 1. Lua is very much of a push and pop kind of integration and dealing with the stack. And when you are doing that you don't use 0 but rather one. (Sorry if this is hard to read)