I recently had to use Lua for a project. I thought I was going to hate it, but I don't. It's actually really nice, in a way.
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...ah, yeah?
I mean, there are a lot of nuisances with it, but at least it's not a whitespace language like Python.
If there's one thing that Lua did better than any other, it's the human-readable syntax. -
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Yes. The one problem with it was that there is no scoping by default.
You have to prepend everything with `local` to get scoping.
At least you *have* scoping compared to Python.
But it is annoying. -
>>3
I think globals by default is Luas only real wart. A lot of the other things people complain about only because they are different, calling them nuisances is understandable, but they aren't /bad/, especially in the context of who and what Lua is designed for. -
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Yeah, Lua is also blazing fast, much faster than other scripting languages. Plus it has a based community, which means, no CoCs!! \0/ -
Indices starting at 1 has been an annoyance to me as well. Although it is a pretty superficial nuisance.
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I usually stick with iterables, rarely needing to access indices except for debugging.
for i in array do print(i) end -
>>21 Iterating has been fine, it only becomes relevant for me when implementing mathematical operations like multiplying matrices.
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>>22
Well, there is probably no way to scape the 1-based index in this case. -
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What was the project? -
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It was a game. I used LOVE:
https://love2d.org/ -
That is a very powerfull framework, had not seen it before.