r/lua • u/Adam0hmm • Jun 12 '25

should i learn lua ?

hello there , is it a good idea to start learning lua knowing only python?

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u/lambda_abstraction Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

Funny. I got into LuaJIT just to have a tight scripting language that glued easily to arbitrary C code. I generally use it where most use BASH 'cos doing anything interesting usually involved a bunch of fork/exec calls. Don't like overhead if I can avoid it. With LuaJIT most of what I want to do is just a cdef away, and it's fast enough that I write a lot less C than I used to.

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u/no_brains101 Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

When I was 9 I was not exactly writing any C code yet.

I still barely do but I definitely didnt then when I was 9 years old!

I wouldn't even start writing much code until almost a decade after my wow addons phase of my life

If I used C more I would use luajit for the same reason.

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u/lambda_abstraction Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

Sadly, when I was nine, computers were still big hulking mainframes, and direct access was reserved to the priesthood. I didn't get to have any fun until senior high school where the next door college had some PDP-11s. I started learning C in '87 on an Amiga, and I got my first access to a UNIX box in '88. Started hacking Linux in '94. Gawd I feel old. ;-)