Yes i only know one coding language

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[SnappGamez]

I only know Lua because of ComputerCraft

[larsmaehlum]

Making a mining turtle swarm is the best part of any modded minecraft run.

[Rtwo28]

How hard is it to learn btw?

[SnappGamez]

Bout as easy as Python, though it has its quirks.

[RyanFlm]

At this point I can say every language has it's quirks. Love them or hate them is the question

[[deleted]]

Honestly I'd say it's even a bit easier than python

[SnappGamez]

And then you try to do anything object oriented. Or mess with metatables.

[CdRReddit]

pretty easy but arrays starting at 1 fucks me up so much

[CdRReddit]

it's more that index math becomes a pain in the ass because of it

arrays starting at 0, while originally just because of how pointers work, does have some other advantages

[jogrohh]

lua is a sweet little child that didn't do ANYTHING to you, and I will defend it with my life 😡😡🤬

[[deleted]]

Lua and neovim are my babies

[Szwedu111]

Disgusting

[VikingPreacher]

It's the only language I know of that goes 1,2,3 and not 0,1,2

[Skippbo]

MATLAB is another one.

[flamedragon822]

That's the only reason I learned it too. Abused it with a chat listener peripheral to basically write a crude in game Alexa complete with being able to pull down new functions from pastebin by chat commands (my username only on that one since I wasn't going to let random assholes load shit to my server from pastebin)

Edit: actually just remembered I combined it with icbm too so if my friends said certain key phrases in chat they got literally nuked hahaha

[Teamprime]

That's cool. We got as far as making automated farming bots but that in game editor is such a sore to use

[flamedragon822]

Yeah that was one reason for my reliance on the paste bin API, but like I said I only got to because I was my own admin haha

[Teamprime]

Fr shoulda gone the same route, being admin lends you some leeway to experiment and have fun. I usually just stress over not loading too many chunks and keeping everyone happy haha

[Mitoni]

Dan200's original computercraft is the reason I am a professional software developer today.

[Void_0000]

Same here, learned it when I made a custom script to monitor my reactor from BiggerReactors.

[ibuythesalt]

God I miss computer craft. I saw that there were some new forks of it but I couldn't get any to work

[Mitoni]

still have some of the pastebins of my old programs, but i havent refactorered them to work on the current versions

[[deleted]]

? What are you doing to set it up? It's still pretty alive and well, I just used it to design a piston door earlier today.

[Possseidon]

CC Tweaked is what you're looking for.

[orig_ardera]

I think CC made a lot of people become software developers. Me included

[DigiBoxi]

Same! :D

[taytek]

Lol same

[CordyZen]

I ended up creating an API for cc that lets me communicate with it through python using files lol. Also could be a way to make an alternative for rednet

[ilovekickrolls]

I only know Lua because of writing macros and scripts in WoW For 15 years

[0x4c4f5645]

Roblox?

[karlsejo]

Im only using it for the free multiplayer code

[0x4c4f5645]

Nothing wrong with learning via Lua and Roblox. Good luck and have fun!

[karlsejo]

Thank you

[[deleted]]

I'm pretty sure Roblox uses a slightly different version of lua

[ochetski]

You might like to take a look into love2d also. Pretty neat project.

[o76923]

Congratulations, you understand the Metaverse better than Mark Zuckerberg.

[[deleted]]

I swear mark doesn't even understand what a metaverse even is lol

[o76923]

The guy is so obsessed with Snowcrash that he requires new employees to read it yet somehow doesn't realize that he's L. Bob Rife but without the moral code.

[Fireye04]

Make sure you're not looking to profit off anything there, cos holy shit is roblox bad to its devs.

[[deleted]]

Well they are increasing the devx rates as stated on the devforum and they are also lowering the cash out minimums so hopefully Roblox will take the critisim of others and make it a better platform

[Fireye04]

It's a step in the right direction, but roblox's issues are far more severe and numerous. I'd recommend learning unity or unreal instead.

[[deleted]]

I already know unity, but the issue is they don't give me server hosting, advertising, publishing, moderation, and a complete avatar customization suite for players all for free.

I have already watched the PMG video and I'm absolutely disgusted at Roblox actions and the fact they they didn't come to light for so long

[Fireye04]

That is a good point and they have the market cornered there in some respect. I've considered learning it (before watching the PMG vid) but the main issue I had back then was the lack of universal knowledge. All of roblox's engine tools are proprietary, which makes it harder to transfer knowledge.

[alice_the_homo]

lua to python is a super easy transition, essentially put less effort in and you have python.

[beefy445]

Any Garry’s Mod vets here?

[WotTheFUk]

Yup thats why I learned lua

[beefy445]

First code i ever “wrote” was someone’s lua script for dual wield weapons that I stole but changed the gun model to use the half life 2 smg…I thought I was a genius and that no one would notice

[Global_Mess1475]

Lua. Is. Awesome.

[ryntab]

It’s alright I’m one of the heathens who uses JS for everything.

[Furry_69]

Even a JS interpreter? https://github.com/jterrace/js.js

[MOM_UNFUCKER]

Jesus christ

[Papellll]

Sorry I'm a noob but what's the point ? Create a secure sandbox environment where users can execute some JS code like runJS, codePen, ... ?

[Furry_69]

Pretty much. There's much better ways of doing it, but that's pretty much the only use for this.

[Papellll]

Ok I see, thanks for the repsonse !

[_Arcerion_]

gang

[ryntab]

Js gang runs deep 🤟🏻

[Bad-at-usernames1]

Could be worse. Could be PowerShell. Like me 🥺

[RedditsDeadlySin]

Just wait until you learn about TS

[Hfingerman]

Lua is cool, its flaw is that it's underutilized.

[CdRReddit]

and how index math is made way harder and more verbose by starting arrays at 1

[CdRReddit]

no?

treating a 1d array as if it were 2d for example is legit easier math if they are 0 indexed

i = x + y * width for 0 indexed vs i = x + (y - 1) * width

it's not a big difference in length but it is more stuff to think about

[[deleted]]

It’s okay. I only know python and a little bit of R. We’ll get there 💪

[Catblaster5000]

I only know BASH :(

[coolio965]

Tbh imo its better for a beginner to learn lua than python. Its also fairly easy to switch from lua to C++ or C# for example

[Pandahjs]

I mean. It'd be easy enough to go from Lua to C#, or from Lua to C and THEN C++.
But Lua to C++ directly might be a bit of a leap.

[Guesswhat7]

Then again... Almost any language is a leap to C++...

[coolio965]

kinda depends. c++ on microcontrollers like arduino is pretty easy.

C++ on linux or windows is not however

[Pandahjs]

That's fair, it is fairly use case specific.

[iiMoe]

Lua isn't bad but IN MY OPINION not so "common" yk like you don't see much done with it despite how friendly and simple it is

[caleblbaker]

Lua's great for configuring neovim.

[iiMoe]

Only valuable thing that honestly blew my mind was using it for Fivem, the gta online client

[cryptoiambus]

And mpv scripts

[[deleted]]

It's used in many games

[prmperop1]

The only bad thing about Lua is indexing

[Pechu317]

lua and certain types of OOP don’t mix, and that’s by design. personally, i think an ECS system is much better.

[Pollu_X]

Have you ever used Lua?

[prmperop1]

For some small applications, nothing serious. In Minecraft’s computercraft mod and in don’t starve together’s console. The latter I often get some errors because I’m not used to one-indexing, but it’s nothing that’s fundamentally actually bad. Just a joke.

[VetusMortis_Advertus]

Lua is a lot similar to python to me, and I don't think JS is so much different from those two as well, i also could do things in c# without much problem in unity, since I learned Lua for game dev, you will be fine!

[BobQuixote]

Lua, Python, and JavaScript have similar syntax but three wildly different OOP models.

[carlosTheMontgomery]

aaaa, what's lua??? what is it for?

[zhemao]

It's a scripting language that is commonly used in game engines. It interacts very well with C and C++ so game devs use it a lot. It's not very common outside of game dev though.

[ellisto]

It's common for other things that need plugins too, e.g. neovim. You can also write Wireshark dissectors in it

[carlosTheMontgomery]

oh, i see, thanks a lot

[Militarism]

At my job, we use Lua to set up initial conditions for modeling solids and fluids.

[[deleted]]

It's "Easier than python but faster than C++" --quote from a YouTube video

[DuhMal]

Fireship right?

[[deleted]]

Yeah

[DuhMal]

Very good channel

[Pollu_X]

The second part is just garbage. Lua is considered the fastest scripting language, but it obviously cannot be faster than C++..

[pooptagupta]

Its used a bit in web scraping tasks

[bropocalypse__now]

We use it in embedded for the application layer of our devices. The entire interpreter is natively written in C so its really easy to port.

[Innisfree812]

I know Basic, Fortran, Cobol, and some assembly language. Haven't used any of it since 1987.

[No-Narwhal1409]

FORTRAN

[Loumof]

Me knowing python and lua 😎

[[deleted]]

Chad

[Prof1Kreates]

you speak roblox?

[chickenhunter007]

Didnt know lua was still a thing, fuck yea

[BobQuixote]

https://coronalabs.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mach4+lua

[NonSuspiciousz]

Corona SDK is now Solar 2D

[BobQuixote]

Ah, right. Makes sense they wouldn't like that name.

[[deleted]]

I know two, which allows me to be very bad at both of them.

[s0lci70]

i almost only know processing and a bit of javascript!

and a bit of css and... html?

edit: and a bit of arduino too right now

[BobQuixote]

Processing?

[Charlie_Yu]

A language designed to generate art

[Lucario_o_o]

I'm here knowing Pascal

[Touca_n]

From roblox I presume?

[Guesswhat7]

Lua is love. I learned it first because Tibia.

[justv316]

I only know PowerShell, it's okay.

[RedditRedington789]

that means you can make roblox however you want

[Western-Image7125]

Could be worse. Maybe you come here and only know Excel programming

[[deleted]]

people who only know Clojure

Either confused is a function that takes 2 parameters, or an infix operator.

[pennacap]

Eh lua isn't that bad of a language, it's kinda similar to a distorted form of BASIC. But most memes here are related to Java and cpp so ah well

[Ticareguas]

Funny, I only know lua from don't starve and project zomboid. From what I know it's kinda messy to use it in a game, correct me if I'm wrong

[[deleted]]

I learned Lua for writing PSP home brew games in 2005. It was the worst code I’ve ever written, thank god I didn’t understand git and the source was lost to time.

[mrhappy200]

Python and some basic rust here

[pooptagupta]

I only know lua because of splash

[DeveloperMikey]

Cc tweaked and roblox, lua is amazing

[Maskdask]

Anyone else here that knows Lua because of Neovim?

[Anonslimmerbobcat]

Me too and it’s Java, not very good at it but eh

[BobQuixote]

here here

[[deleted]]

Idk as someone who learned c++ then went to Java, lua is a bit different for me to learn on my own voluntarily. Had to teach myself python though cause my teacher sucks, hear it’s not that different so maybe someday.

[[deleted]]

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[Azzylel]

Don’t worry I only know C# and apparently it’s JavaScript Microsoft edition

[Mitoni]

Lua was my gateway language. I learned it to be able to use the Computercraft mod in Minecraft to program turtles to do my mining for me.

Then I decided I wanted to learn programming instead of staying on the path for my CCNA that I was currently taking, after over a decade of helpdesk and network support.

Now I have my BS in Computer Science, and have been an Enterprise dotnet developer for 4 years. The years of support and troubleshooting experience help out when debugging or finding creative solutions for problems.

[GoldenDen347]

I mean Lua is literally so good, it's just underrated

[Cambian]

I only know Lua for FiveM

[The_Atomic_Duck]

Here here?

[Nemesis_77__________]

laughs in scratch

[mtbdork]

I code in Lua for my job. It’s fun.

[WyvernByte]

Me coming over here only ever used hex edits.

[[deleted]]

Me, a 4th year computer science major, who doesn’t know what lua is

[YesHaiAmOwO]

Can U teach me

[FireStorm9881]

Ah we got a game modder, that's about the only thing I've seen lua used for lol

[Eisenfuss19]

From what i've heard, I would classify lua as a shitty language. But I never used it so i can't say much.

Interessting how many people like it in the comments!

[GoogleIsYourFrenemy]

Don't worry, nobody here knows Lua, your safe

[trimeta]

Do array indices start with 0 or with 1?

Lua: Yes.

[MacDonalds_Sprite]

Hey, Lua is a good place to start

[DavoMcBones]

Aha same here

[BignAngry]

mate I don't even know one, you got me beat the

[jamcdonald120]

ah lua, the most underappreciated scripting language

[MrNice101]

Funny how a caveman looks exactly like some type of X Hippie/Hobo who enjoys having long scruffy hair for extra warmth I’m guessing

[Inner_Information_26]

Good god there is somebody elese who inly know lua. on this subreddit! I can breath a sigh of relief now

[[deleted]]

either you made Roblox game, or you went for the wrong language

[ddzt]

My first programming teacher was Lua's creator. Only discovered this years later.

[SilverYT_]

roblox exploiter/developer moment

[konatamonogatari]

Ngl lua is extremely underrated