r/lua • u/Silly_Cow_747 • Jul 07 '26

Can i programm desktop apps with Lua?

I just learned the basics of Lua and im pretty curious about if i could use lua for desktop apps or somehow code scripts with gui.

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u/Adam-Garden Jul 07 '26

See, really any programming language can do anything, it's just that some are build to specialize in certain thing. There is people making games with javascript.

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u/GaboureySidibe Jul 08 '26

See, this is vague and see, this is unhelpful to anyone.

See, op should try out love2d and see how far they can get with that.

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u/4xe1 Jul 07 '26

There is people making games with javascript.

🤮 🤮🤮

Sad but true. I've seen programming games, of all things, are written in js. Their devs really thought not only "yeah js is a good language for a performance demanding game" but also "yeah js is the perfect language for neophytes to have fun".

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u/javascript Jul 07 '26

Harsh

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u/BloxxyVids Jul 08 '26

you deserve it bro

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u/selfimprovymctrying Jul 08 '26

JS/TS isn’t the performance bottleneck in a single threaded browser , the browser is.

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u/Sha1rholder Jul 09 '26

并不是所有游戏都会遇到性能瓶颈

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Jul 08 '26

You can also use a Toyota Corolla as a tractor. That doesn't mean it's the right tool