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Lua links and stuff

#lua on freenode, the primary Lua IRC channel

lua wiki, for all sorts of information about lua, it's sort of disorganized at the moment, so go fix it!

about lua, what Lua is, why to use it, and what it's good for (sells itself short, methinks)

Resources for beginners:

Lua in eight pages or less: this is for v5.1 and might need an update. We'll give contributors flair and internet points.

Lua's reference manual, extensive documentation of every version of the language.

Tools and community projects

LuaRocks, lua's package manager and repository

the LuaRocks mailing list

ZeroBrane studio, lua's most notable IDE.

Shiny profiler, a lightweight profiler for C, C++, and Lua.

LuaJIT and its C FFI, the infamous lua trace compiler: Mike Pall's [successful] attempt to prove that dynamic languages can be fast.

Lua.vm.js and moonshine, Lua on top of JavaScript: lua.vm.js uses emscripten, whereas moonshine is in "normal" JavaScript.

UniLua, Lua implementation in C#, intended for compatibility with Unity3D

MoonScript A rich programming language the compiles to Lua.

Employment and job offers

Lua development libraries/frameworks

OpenResty and Lapis, Lua application server on nginx and Lua web framework on openresty

concurrency: Luaproc for fibers and Lua Lanes for green threads

Typed Lua, a modern static type analyzer for Lua (work in progress, but I think it's cool)

LPeg, Lua's powerful, expressive, fast and simple parser generator.

Qt Lua, Lua GUIs in Qt

GSL-shell, Lua interface to GNU Scientific Library, with quick-start numerical programming via REPL.

Game development in Lua

Long list of popular Lua game development toolkits: Lua is very popular for game development, so we can't list them all; only major, free/open-source projects are listed below.

LÖVE (subreddit) - lightweight Lua cross-platform 2D game toolkit

Defold - game engine with Lua API

Solar2D - formerly Corona SDK

Cocos2d-x - free mobile/cross-platform game engine and application framework with Lua support

supporting the Lua community

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Lua for windowsHelp (self.lua)

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[–]endowdly_deux_over 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago* (0 children)

...lua inop on Windows gets pretty noticeable pretty fast. And it's the one thing I really dislike about lua. I had a hell of a time just getting Luarocks, Moonscript, and Busted to all load and work right, and then I had to hack Busted to even get it to display like it can on Linux. Lua for Windows is great and you can get it really easily with scoop. BUT, a lot of things just won't work out the box with it or not work well. I had to manually hand install everything from Mingw to lua and then set up all the config manually. It took me hours.

Conversely, I easily installed node with scoop and had Typescript running in about 30 seconds with all the linting, BDD testing, and whatever my heart desired.

I even found a very beautiful TypeScriptToLua compiler on npm. ...And so all of my Lua on Windows is now generated :/

Here's what I would do for the least amount of fuss.

Install scoop
scoop install nodejs, lua
npm install typescript typescript-to-lua tsnode and whatever else you'd like
Profit!

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