Lua thread

>>57056141
Educate yourself nigga. What next, are you going to learn about the existence of Prolog?

I use it a lot in combination with C, considering the interface is smooth as butter. Allows me to use both dank Lua high-level concepts and delicate low-level efficiency. I feel like I could do anything with just C and Lua.

>>57056141
>One-based indexing
>No switch statements
>Numbers can only be represented as doubles

Lua is fucking trash.

>>57056356
Demolished.

I think Lua's usefulness died with Python, desu.

I enjoyed using lua but it's not worth learning unless you have an application in mind.

>>57056371
+1

>>57056371
Lua is widely used because the interpreter is simple to implement and can be embedded inside other programs. Often used for the interface in otherwise C/C++ games, for example. Also remember reading about a distributed database that supported running arbitrary code with lua (with some exceptions). I wouldn't use it as a general purpose language though, too basic.

Lua was my first language. Wrote gmod plugins with it. Pretty useful for game scripting and not much else.

>>57056141
The only reason to learn Lua is because of Torch. Other than that, just don't bother