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One challenge we have with Lua in Mudlet (FOSS text-based MUD client, think something akin to Roblox but for text) is that all of the player-created content is on Lua 5.1, and upgrading to 5.5 would be a breaking change for most. Has anyone solved an ecosystem upgrade like this?
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Where is that post?
https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Question-about-LuaJIT-... Warning: Ridiculous cookie consent banner, needs dozens of clicks to opt out.
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> get it to run on SteamOS Huh? I had to do zero extra work to run it on the steam deck.
The version sold in the Steam store runs the Windows build via Proton. (Valve's whole philosophy is you should build one version of your game, and their compatibility layers should be so bulletproof that it runs flawlessly everywhere.) In this case, I had the Game Pass version. It depends on a custom shared object `love.platform` that talks to Microsoft's cloud APIs to save/load your game and achievements. I used Gem…
I feel like Lua is absolutely underrated. I just wish one of the mainstream browsers actually puts their foot down and starts supporting Lua as scripting language.
Ypu could probably run it in wasm. Of course, without access to the DOM it won't go any further than anything else on wasm. The whole thing is nuts if you ask me. So much lost potential.
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Because Lua's Hello World is just `print("hello, world")`, which looks a lot like Python and doesn't tell you much about actually using the language.
So put a slightly more informative hello world example then. Look at the Go homepage. Or Nim. (But not Rust sadly.)
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So put a slightly more informative hello world example then. Look at the Go homepage. Or Nim. (But not Rust sadly.)
Rather than Hello World, I'd rather see something like a classic Fibonacci calculator with recursion. That way you see function definitions, variable typing, math operations (Lua doesn't have increment/decrement operators or augmented assignments), and even tail-call recursion if it's an option. Hello World is really only useful as an environment verification - do you have your machine set up so you can run the code,…
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Why did you find this interesting?
For me it's interesting because global variable declarations haven't been needed before, so why now? Also, I'm not sure `global` was reserved before, but now it seems to be.
I miss working in Lua. Metatables are pretty powerful, and "everything is in a table" made it super easy to do hot reloading. At one point working on an iOS game, I had things set up so that when I hit save on my PC, my phone would pick up the changes and just start running the new code, as all persistent state was stored in a special table. Someday I need to look into getting the same kind of environment going for r…
Although, we've since moved to having several distinct data structures which conceptually map to tables, but implementation and syntax-wise have differences (mostly for performance).
BTW Basis was a good idea, I remember reading about Nondeterministic replay is a big problem on platforms like ROS.