Lua is an industry standard for a reason. The syntax isn’t great. But the reference implementation of Lua is under 500kb, very easy to embed and very fast.
I know what you mean lol, but Lua is very noob friendly… it goes fairly far out of its way to make many common functions and data types as compatible with each other as possible… so thats another way it is generally more slow, but also more forgiving, won’t just totally error out and be frustrating to a beginner coder.
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As someone who can’t wrap my head around lua syntax, I will have to assume I simply have too much coding experience
Yeah, I remember using LUA back in the day for gmod.
Hands down one of the shittiest languages I ever touched, right down there with PHP.
Really puts into perspective how stupid developers can be when deciding the tools that they use.
Hot take.
Lua is an industry standard for a reason. The syntax isn’t great. But the reference implementation of Lua is under 500kb, very easy to embed and very fast.
I know what you mean lol, but Lua is very noob friendly… it goes fairly far out of its way to make many common functions and data types as compatible with each other as possible… so thats another way it is generally more slow, but also more forgiving, won’t just totally error out and be frustrating to a beginner coder.
What is it that you find hard to understand about its syntax ?