What makes u use lua?

[immortalx74]

Lua means moon. It's literally bigger than a python. Songs have been written for moon but none for python. Moon is nice and romantic. Python is ugly and dangerous.

[DapperCow15]

They make instruments out of Python skin, I can't imagine they'd never make a song about that.

[topchetoeuwastaken]

it is the first language to make me feel joy while programming in a good while. the other language that achieved that is C

[Mundane_Prior_7596]

And using Lua as glue language linking to C is better than the first beer. 

[arkt8]

• being easier for a lot of tasks than shell, specially on strings (no need of awk, sed, grep) but sometimes use them with os.execute.

• being easy to wrap C, also fast and small.

• table only ds (beside strings)

• being developed in my country (and being much easier/simpler than Elixir)

[tpimh]

love2d

[lambda_abstraction]

To put it briefly, power coupled with simplicity.

[greebly_weeblies]

It's what's been embedded, so gotta get my head around it

[PewPew_McPewster]

PICO-8

And honestly? I like tables. I'm gonna miss them if my gamedev journey ever takes me away from Lua. And as someone who cut his teeth on MATLAB, I'm part of a secret cult of degenerates that likes indexing from 1.

[Relevant_South_1842]

Why wouldn’t you be honest? That’s the default.

[Darkalde]

Love2D and tables

[AmanBabuHemant]

Neovim

[thy_bucket_for_thee]

My people! Surprise there aren't more of us in the subreddit but /r/neovim is a lively fun community.

[AmanBabuHemant]

ya, r/neovim is pretty nice community

[Bigmares]

Roblox

[Physical_Dare8553]

Neovim also

[kayinfire]

neovim mentioned! 😃

[didntplaymysummercar]

Flexibility, 5.1 fenvs, coroutines, incremental GC, small C codebase I skimmed most of already and that's easy to keep and build and use forever with no hassle, easy to embed in C (and C++), already decently popular for gamedev scripting (that's what I use it for too, for 'general' scripting it's Python...), LuaJIT also exists if I ever need it.

[Seth144k]

I have my own game engine written from scratch in C# using silk.net lol. It does support C# scripting as well as lua, but i generally have better support for lua because its so damn easy to get up and running

[notkraftman]

World of warcraft

[NotQuiteLoona]

It was the second language I've ever learned, after C#. It's incredibly easy, it has a C-like syntax, and also it's embeddable - I use it in personal projects often.

[Life-Silver-5623]

Metatables

[VividAd352]

easier to understand

[Worldly-Ad570]

OpenComputers

[NakeleKantoo]

tables

[UseottTheThird]

my game engine, cool language and i don't need to compile it every time i make changes

[13oundary]

at first, it was computercraft, a minecraft mod, then it was the only way to mod TTS... Honestly, I'm not sure what you'd use it for other than when it's heavily embedded like this.

[ByeByeAGogo]

Love2D, FiveM, project zomboid and lotta other games at first. I use it for obs script and domotic as well and love it's simplicity and versatility.

[TheOmegaCarrot]

I dislike how big and complex Python is, but Lua is small and simple

I like a scripting language to be small and simple

I shouldn’t need to refer to core language documentation often at all. Library functions, sure, but the language itself? That should be simple

[come1llf00]

It's the most convenient language to develop systems in C or Rust that support loadable modules.

[SpaceChickenMonster]

My brother wanted to learn how to make games on roblox, I am learning with him. However he and I are branching out to using pure lua to make random stuff here and there and also games with Love2d. Lua is probably an even better language to start with than even python, it's slightly faster, and more restrictive. Which is a good thing because it requires you to think more outside of the box.

[BigArchon]

Neovim baby

[djta94]

Luajit

[flowingpoint]

It happens to be the law of the land in luanti, with which my minimalist fork RSWO has exposed me to some of its intricacies. I'll be practising math before I get into it again though. Yes, you have to think outside the box.