lua

lua

a small, highly embeddable scripting language used for configs, making video games.

Features

• 1 indexed arrays :(

• one data structure = tables

• metatables

• extremely embeddable: you can embed lua inside lua to create a sandbox or a repl. src: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/blob/4510d04d33f0bf85ce5755455df817e8054eabd1/fennel.lua#L2753

• coroutines

Platforms

• love2d: along with libgosu for ruby (https://www.libgosu.org/), one of the very first video game platforms I tried to write something form. https://love2d.org/

• tic-80: adorable fantasy console with native support for fennel, and built in sprite and music editors. https://tic.computer/

  • https://notabug.org/selfsame/aaa

• playdate (physical console): https://play.date

Languages that compile to lua

• fennel

Coroutines

• http://www.jonathanfischer.net/lua-coroutines/
• https://github.com/andreyorst/fennel-async/blob/main/async.fnl
• https://eliasdaler.github.io/how-to-implement-action-sequences-and-cutscenes/#coroutines-basics

Resources

• The Power of Lua and Mixins, 2014. One of my first exposures to ... the power of lua and mixins. https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues/2

• A Look at the Design of Lua: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext

Lua and neovim

• https://icyphox.sh/blog/nvim-lua/
• https://github.com/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide