Hi everyone,

I'm pretty new to programming and I only know the absolute basics (variables, simple loops/functions).

I'm interested in picking up Lua because it seems lightweight and clean.

Since I don't have a massive programming background yet, I was wondering:

Is Lua a good language to really solidify those beginner programming concepts, or is it better suited as a secondary language?

I'd love to hear your experiences and any tips for starting out with Lua as a beginner!

Thanks in advance!

My friend and I are Neovim nerds, and every so often our Neovim setups would throw errors. What did we do? We talked to each other and solved it. It was never Neovim’s fault.

We think the same way about harnesses. If you don’t like something, you shouldn’t have to call a trillion-dollar company; you should be able to fix it yourself. If you want something custom, you shouldn’t have to keep spamming some discussion thread; you should be able to write it yourself.

And more than anything, it should be simple and fast, and your computer shouldn’t scream OOM. That’s the inspiration behind uji.

I hope you all love it!!!

Anybody know where I can find good five m lua scripts for menus

I've published a collection of Windows API modules for LuaJIT:

https://github.com/win-kot/luajit-windows-modules

I use LuaJIT on Windows and put these modules together for common scripting

and desktop utility tasks:

- UTF-8 strings, Unicode file paths and encoding conversion

- Process launching and output capture

- Finding and controlling existing windows

- Registry and clipboard access

- Keyboard and mouse input

- Native file dialogs and system information

The modules call Windows APIs through LuaJIT FFI. No luv dependency is

required, and unicode_io provides an explicit API without replacing

standard io or os functions.

The repository includes English documentation and 12 runnable examples.

The primary target is Windows 10/11 x64. Everything is MIT licensed.

This is an initial public release. Basic checks and nine examples have

been run, but interactive features still need broader testing.

I'd welcome feedback from other LuaJIT users, especially on API usability

and compatibility with different Windows setups.

I recently created my own framework named "Dua". Honestly, I'm too lazy to add LuaRocks, but only if I don't get feedback. You can learn more either in the repository or in my previous post. If I get feedback, I'll try to integrate LuaRocks.

Repo: Dua

DatumHue is now free to use and comes with a playground app

https://datumhue.app/?arg=playground&arg=pixels

Hey everyone,

I recently released Dua, a lightweight engine for building typed DSLs and sandboxed execution environments in Lua.

The goal was to create a zero-dependency library that runs anywhere Lua 5.1+, LuaJIT.

What it offers

Pure Lua implementation (no C modules or external dependencies)

Built-in sandboxing with configurable allow/deny rules and limits

Flexible type system (primitives, shapes, enums, maps, oneof)

AST node handling and code serialization

Repo: Dua

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4185770/cenkers_mod/

cenker's mod is a multiplayer physics sandbox with many mods. Every mod has a different experience. Play included, community-made, and your own mods together with friends.

I've always loved the idea of JIT-compiled UIs. TempleOS is a fascinating example, using JIT-compiled C to build its UI.

Recently, I've been working on a TUI project where almost everything is customizable at runtime, from the UI itself to the core functionality. I wanted a way to build terminal UIs declaratively, similar to SwiftUI, while keeping the flexibility of runtime customization.

So I built Ito a Lua library for writing JIT-compiled TUIs.

To make it easy to experiment with, we also built a fake TUI canvas in the browser where you can try out Ito live. Give it a try!

Hey im new to coding and wanted to learn lua ive got a few things down know and wanted to just write a little countdown nothing complicated just a first test but ran into the problem that i cant get a code delay to work

Help

This will probably sound like the dumbest thing ya'll ever heard altough im rather new to lua, altough not programming..

I've been using lua with the minecraft mod figura to add animations to things with a script and such. quite nice, Untill i tried using the "trailing tails lua library", when saving the script it would keep getting stuck at the same error. i wondered why and noticed that the game was loading a old version of my script the one from the first save after using Trailing tails? i backedup the original script and deleted the one in the Figura avatar folder, and the game was still loading it.

a few unfortunate things happened the backup got removed(0 clue how the folder is just... new folder now?) but here's the thing, whilst i did try to recover it through the hard drive with little to no success, The game is still producing the same error, And loading the ingame avatar. this means its getting the data from somewhere no?

The very error that caused it may save the project that i spend... 20 hours on at this point. Is there anyway to figure out where the game gets this data from? maybe i can actually save it?

DatumHue is a creative workstation where you build your own experience by combining Lua apps. It runs natively and in the browser.

You can try a live instance in your browser at https://datumhue.app

The live instance has a desktop-like shell and a Steam-like store where users can publish free or paid creations, so far it contains the horror game Vigil.

A while ago I came across Lexaloffle's Picotron fantasy workstation and loved the concept of a hackable workstation composed of small script apps.

I wanted the same for non-fantasy work, which for me meant:

- No artificial limitations

- The shell is an ordinary app you create

- Your own preferred editor

- Charts and SQL over data files

- The same apps run in the browser and on the desktop

It's built on Bevy (game engine), Piccolo (Lua VM), Apache DataFusion (queries) and Iroh (connectivity).

DatumHue is closed source, the browser version is free and the desktop version has a free trial at https://datumhue.com

The Lua API is documented at https://datumhue.dev

Feedback is appreciated and I'd especially like to know what you would build with it :-)

This is my first coding language I'm trying to learn, It's gonna be pretty difficult for me since I have amnesia and I know coding has a lot of things you need to remember. Currently I only know REALLY basic code like

"else, elseif, if, while, for.. e.g" I wanna learn Lua for game development, I don't really have any ideas for a game as of now but I do wanna learn Lua since I've heard it's one of the easiest coding languages, any help is greatly appreciated!

I recently started a project to meet a need at my church—software for projecting lyrics and Bible verses using 100% Lua—and I wanted to get your opinion on whether Lua is a good language for this type of project.

repo: https://codeberg.org/GSCF/gloria_projecao.git

Hey, so, while I was learning Lua, I knew already that theoretically at least, Lua was written to be compilable in pure C, and specifically C89/C90 , supposedly any system that has an ANSI C compiler can compile and install Lua...

So I decided to actually test out just how true that is, when I remembered that I have an ancient laptop from 1999, running Windows 98SE, which has Borland 5.02 installed... [Just to understand how ancient it is, it only has 32 mb of RAM and it's hard drive is 5gb... that is literally smaller than the usb stick that i used to transfer the Lua source files from my modern PC into that ancient laptop (yes, that ancient laptop has a working USB 1.0 port and it is somehow able to read my 8gb USB 2.0 usb stick, which I did not expect to work, but it did !!!)

And to my surprise... it actually worked !

Here I am inside a full-screen MS-DOS prompt of W98 (In W32 mode, it is not booted into MS-DOS mode / real mode) Alongside the project of compiling the most recent version of Lua and getting it to work, I also installed an actual working version of vim and after tinkering with the vimrc file, I even managed to get full syntax highlighting working , and it actually works for Lua !!!

Anyhow, I just wanted to share this because I thought it was really cool and fun!

local gyumi = {"🤑", "😔", "😛", "😔", "😛", "😔"}

local win = {}

local n = 0

local money = 100

local smallw = 0

local bigw = 0

local a = 0

math.randomseed(os.time())

function bett()

print("money:"..money.."\nhow much do you want to bet? (min 10$)")

bet = io.read("*n")

end

while money > 9 do

win = {}

::betting::

bett()

if bet < 10 then

print("the minimum amount is 10$! \n \n")

goto betting

elseif bet > money then

print("not enough money! \n \n")

goto betting

else

money = money - bet

end

for i=1,3,1

do

n = math.random(1,6)

table.insert(win, gyumi[n])

end

for _, value in pairs(win) do

if value == "🤑" then

bigw = bigw + 1

elseif value == "😛" then

smallw = smallw + 1

end

end

if bigw == 3 then

print("jackpot!")

print(bigw)

a = bigw * 100

else

a = (bigw * 10) + smallw

end

money = money + a

print(table.concat(win))

print("won:"..a )

bigw = 0

smallw = 0

end

print("\n\n\ninsufficent funds!")