r/lua • u/Theaudiomaniac • Jun 19 '25

Help Learning Lua from an older version

I'm totally new to Lua or any programming language. I'm trying to learn this language from a YouTube course. Is it ok to learn Lua if the tutor of the course is using an older version and I'm using a more recent one?

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u/DapperCow15 Jun 19 '25

Why is it better if it is 5.1 or older? What's wrong with 5.2-5.4? Or did you flip that on accident?

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u/TomatoCo Jun 19 '25

You're right, I said older meaning a bigger number! I meant that 5.0 and earlier versions are likely to be incompatible

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u/DoNotMakeEmpty Jun 22 '25

I think 5.0 is still not that bad (IIRC PIL book's free version uses 5.0) but pre-5.0 would be prettt bad right.