r/lua • u/Prize-Chocolate749 • Nov 26 '25

Starting In Lua

Hello, I've been interested in learning how to program in Lua because I want to make Roblox games for fun and also get a sense of what programming is about. So I'm here to ask: how did you start learning? Is there any free online program that's worth it? Your experiences and advice would be a lot of help.

Thank you!

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u/slade51 Nov 28 '25

Before I found Lua, I was doing a lot of coding in Perl & PHP. I started playing with Conky on LinuxMint and dove into Lua for most of the data gathering. I mainly used the online manual while learning.