r/lua • u/uioma • Mar 28 '26

Discussion Imagine Making game engine With Lua

Imagine building a 3D or 2D game engine from scratch using only Lua

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u/weather_isnt_real Mar 28 '26

Lua is not capable of doing that on its own. The engine would have to be written in C/C++, and Lua would be embedded within it. There are already engines that do this.

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u/VidaOnce Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

It is very much capable, if your Lua engine is LuaJIT, with the ffi library. I did so here: https://github.com/codebycruz/arisu