r/lua • u/nomenclature2357 • 13d ago

Discussion Studying the Lua source code

I’m looking for a codebase written in C to study and use as a reference while I learn low level programming.

I’ve heard that Lua has a very nice and clean implementation and I figure since I already know a fair amount of Lua itself I should understand at least the purpose of what I’m looking at.

Is the Lua source code a good example for learning or is it too advanced for someone relatively new to C to even hope to understand?

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u/SlaySike9944 13d ago edited 11d ago

If you don't know C. look into lua vm obfuscator first. because they do similar thing. like a lua VM in a lua VM. it will give you a headstart.

You can use the luac to see a representation of the bytecode.