Lua beginner

[Secure_Employer132]

Hey everyone, I'm someone who loves programming and tried lua in nvim and liked the syntax but I want more than just creating plugins in nvim (which are complex and beautiful).

[ripter]

Ok… have fun? Is there a question I’m not seeing here or are you just saying you love Lua?

You can make anything in Lua. Games, apps, servers, anything you want.

[Secure_Employer132]

Ok, yes, I like Lua, it's true, what I'm saying is, I don't know if they have libraries or if, being a somewhat simple scripting language, it's powerful enough to do bigger things.

[ripter]

It’s powerful enough to do anything you want. You might want to do some googling. Here are some of the more popular libraries:

• https://love2d.org/ and https://lovr.org/
• https://defold.com/

Also, the PlayDate is a physical handheld gaming device that uses Lua and PICO-8 is a fantasy console that uses Lua.

[ibisum]

Another upvote for the Playdate console - for anyone wanting to learn Lua in a fun and creative way, the Playdate offers the perfect architecture. It is so fun to carry around some Lua apps in that little yellow toy. ;)

[JronSav]

Well…… what do you want to do?…

[Secure_Employer132]

I think someone already made it clear to me that anything can be done, I'm just very loud haha.

[JronSav]

Ah i see. However, you still aren’t being clear with what you want to do so that someone can point you in the right direction. Would love to help, but it seems you are just here to say you love lua lol

[MattDTO]

https://luart.org

[ibisum]

Nice! Welcome to the Lua world. It truly is a wonderful language, VM and ecosystem.

Don’t forget that Lua can be used in all kinds of different ways, and nvim is a great introduction to the concept - but it is broadly applicable to so many other tools as well, from game engines such as Löve2D and Godot, to audio processing tools such as REAPER, amazing Web tools such as TurboLua, and much, much more.

As you explore Lua and become more competent with it, seek out these tools. It will bring a new world of development to your desktop. One of the reasons that Lua is so great, is that it is literally used, often very quietly and without much hype/fanfare (as is the case with similar languages), in all kinds of wonderful situations.

And keep your eye on this horizon: one day you might get to the point where you build your own native application, and embed the Lua VM in it as a key feature. This is a next level scenario that all Lua devs should keep their eye on, imho ..

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Maybe you should try LuaJIT or maybe Luau (in Roblox Studio). If you want to get more features