>have to pay to be able to learn this language How did they

ever heard of piracy

>>62043894
It's the principle of the thing anon

>>62043944
Does C count?
For a long long time, the only real reference was K&R first edition.

>needing a book to learn something as barebones as Lua.

Just write some fucking Lua code and save your money it's so simple

yeah there could be more, but there are a few:

Lua 5.3 Reference Manual
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/

Programming in Lua 1st Edition (for 5.0)
https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

Lua Programming Wikibook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lua_Programming

>>62044023
this desu
you basically know it already if you've used any scripting language ever

Lua is comfy tbhf

>>62043885
Just fucking read PIL, the first edition is free online, and except maybe for metatables everything's online

Also check lua-users

>>62043885
>what's a google

File: thatsmyfetish.webm (64KB, 280x182px) Image search: [Google]

64KB, 280x182px

>>62043885
The same way they got away becoming the de facto standard for amateur game scripting despite not being very suitable for it:
By being the first thing to market (after tcl, which is a joke).

>>62043885
>needing a book for learning a programming language that can be learned in 5 minutes by gewgling.

>>62043885
ARRAYS START FROM 1

>>62047559
That's how math starts indices.

>>62048012
>empty range in Lua
[1,0]
>empty range in every other language
[0,1)

>>62044023
Lua brought me into programming. I watched a few shitty youtube series and that was it.