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There are two types of Lua users
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Don't forget Gmod modders!
Glua is bizzaro world Lua though.
It was so, so, so much worse back in the early days when the FacePunch forums still... existed.
Probably a majority of forum posts, for years, were people screaming at Garry for making posts that just said something like 'its obvious how this function works, I don't need to explain it', and then oops turns out he did it wrong, new gamebreaking bug / exploit exists for 3 weeks, the first week of which was random forum people telling Garry he did it wrong and him temp or perma banning them.
That or he would very often just rewrite entire core function libraries, make a tiny 8 word bullet point about it in an avalanche of a changelog, and then say something like, 'shouldn't break existing code', and then well, it would completely break existing game mode code, and then 80% of the most played custom game modes would be broken for a month or more while Garry just either ignored everyone, or told them he didn't care.
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Also, Roblox just is Gmod in many ways, but with a highly manipulative monetization model built in.
All the Gmod RP servers would paygate player roles and content and such offsite, outside of the game, setup a webpage or forum that worked as an ecommerce site, run a dedi db and then API connect that into Gmod... Roblox is all of that, but self contained, and with a lot more lawyers on hand to prevent monetization outside of the game itself.
Gmod is the first thing I think of when I hear Lua.
To me, Lua will always be the WoW plugin language.
Well, and then there's the guy who made Balatro in Lua.
Using the love2D framework if not wrong
Yup! If you have it on steam you can unzip the exe and take a peak at his code.
This was the method people used to get Balatro running on mobile before. Extract the Lua code and then package it using LÖVE for Android/iOS
Dont forget OpenComputers users! Theres gotta be five of us by now.
Including the people that only used computercraft?
I was sick and tired of not having full remote storage access after losing logistics pipes, we had refined storage and a computercraft peripheral mod for it so I wrote a server and client for remotely requesting items to be delivered via ender chest using the computer craft ipads and the computercraft internet. You'd type in a search query and it would display the top 10 items in the network containing that query and how many there were, then you'd pick the one you wanted from that list by entering its index, then you'd enter the quantity
You made your own Applied Energistics 2 lol
Yea, I really really can't stand ae2 but I also didn't have control over the mods anyway
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Factorio mod dev?
Computercraft enjoyers
World of Warcraft plugins and Awesome WM configs. There are some decent 2d game engines that use Lua too, like Love2d!
The one time I used lua was to make a casino in Minecraft with the ComputerCraft mod like, over a decade ago. I enjoyed it. Even as a young lad I didn't like index from 1, though
and PICO-8 devs!
Literally every game modding community ever:
Except the poor people stuck with C# when modding unity games.
And Löve 2d developers
Lua is actually a really decent language to work with, and it's pretty fast too, can compile it to executables, I think it's great
Today I learned there is a use for lua besides neovim
As a former Lightroom plugin developer I feel erased!
WoW Addon programmers?
A random Awesome WM user has entered the chat
Factorio modders
Does anyone genuinely like the language on its own merits? Lua is an excellent alternative to other interpreted langs like Python or JS.
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Fantasy Console devs
lua_State *L disagrees.
Isaac modding
Dota 2
Also CoronaSDK users for making Android games back in the day
I'm using lapis for stuff.
^lua's^ ^c^ ^api^ ^is^ ^also^ ^really^ ^good^
OpenMW modders
Tabletop Simulator.
Doing that right now, unfortunately.
Payday 2 mod dev?
Conky users?
Me, an XPlane boi. Quietly flying with my Lua scripts.
Lua is awesome, I added some scripting to toggle replay buffer on OBS and to save recording from buffer then restart the buffer. IE: Save last 10-15 minutes of gameplay.
Very cool to do it in Lua.
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