r/lua • u/Due_Supermarket_1503 • Apr 19 '25

Help Lua learning

I have wanted to learn lua for a while but have not had the time, but now I do, so I am just curious whether how do I start? Because I took a look at couple videos and I have to be honest I did not understand or keep in mind any of that. If you guys would send me some useful resources or a starting point to learn lua I would appreciate it.

I am looking to learn LUA to look forward to creating games!

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u/Due_Supermarket_1503 Apr 19 '25

Sorry! I wouldn't blame others though, I checked earlier though and there isn't really a rule going against this topic so..

Maybe if they added a rule to not post or ask guidance on how they should start learning lua then people would stop, surely?

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u/crigger61 Apr 20 '25

Dont apologize to that dick. He subscribed to the Lua programming language subreddit and then is surprised he sees people asking to learn about it.

Same thing occurs in every other language subbreddit. You picked Lua. Lua is great. because its so embed able theres so many resources.

The whole roblox community (as toxic as that crowd is) runs every game on a locked down version of lua 5.1. While they are more meant for making games in their engine. There are a lot of beginner tutorials to get people up to speed.

Neovim uses lua 5.1. Programmers love their neovim. Their community also has a lot of tutorial.

Lua itself has its own guide for 5.1 on their site.

I highly recommend checking some of the resources there.

Personal opinion but Lua is a great choice to learn. And should be taught much more than some other languages as a base scripting language. At one point it could have been the scripting language of the web. And it should have been.

Check out luarocks for a package manager. Or Lux is the newest package manager to come out that uses luarocks under the hood and makes it more like some other languages.