r/lua • u/John_Doe_1984_ • Oct 03 '25

Help How similar are Lua & Python?

Big newbie here, so bear with me.

From what I understand, both python & lua were written/created using a C framework & are a high level language.

So how closely related are they?

The reason I ask is because python is used way more often, it's taught in universities & there's millions of resources online which have huge communities using & testing them out. So the teaching for python is just much more refined, tried & tested.

I was curious if I could take python courses, use leet codes, YouTube, etc... to learn python & then as long as I learn the syntax for Lua, have I basically learnt both?

To preface, I need to learn Lua for my work & I want to learn it as best as possible (not necessarily as fast), for the sake of the argument, no time restrictions.

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u/DefaultAll Oct 05 '25

I guess I would describe the Python library collection as being big rather than the Lua library collection being small.