[noob here] What are the advantages of Lua?

• ufo

  4 241 0.0 Lua

  Portable distribution of LuaJIT with precompiled binaries, libraries and FFI bindings (by malkia)

Heres some examples: Luajit UFO by Malkia - https://github.com/malkia/ufo This is a pure luajit with ffi examples to a vast number of libraries - its mainly for windows, but I learnt luajit using this toolkit on Win10 and Linux. Its brilliant. Another one like this is LuaPower - https://luapower.com/ This has a vast array of libs and tools ready-to-use And my personal favorite Defold - https://defold.com/

• ljs

  2 156 0.0 C

  Lua with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax

- Luajit +FFI is the fastest, cleanest way to integrate C libs into a script. Its insane how nice it is - should be illegal :). - Lua meta tables/methods are the most under stated capability of Lua. These mechanisms allow Lua to really work like a large scale HLL. Heck you can event make a language in it! Want Lua to look like C/JS? https://github.com/mingodad/ljs There are many like this. :) - Luajit fixed at 5.2 API means its _not_ _going_ _to_ _break_ when you bring in libraries. One of my biggest pet peeves are people that think languages should always change - I think you need to read Linus's thoughts on moving ABI's any why its dumb. - If you dont like the lang, embed Lua into another lang, and then just use it for "parts" you need it for. Most of the game and sim systems I built, used this method (some with SWIG).

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