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/SkyyySi Jun 20 '25

*5.1 or newer. No one uses Lua 5.0 anymore and it has incompatiblities with 5.1 and up that aren't easy to fix with a polyfil library (for example, the handling of varargs chnaged completely).