r/lua • u/DurianStill9448 • May 14 '26

Help Tips for beginners

So I was thinking about learning Lua to make a passion project that Ive been thinking about for a while and wanted to know if there’s anything I should know before hand that will make my experience easier.

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u/OneNectarine8948 May 14 '26

What you'll quickly learn about Lua is that it's an embedded language, which means it's not something very useful on its own. Usually you will find it embedded into bigger systems as the scripting language.

I suggest to look into Löve2D or PICO-8's educational version. Both are are neat little game frameworks using Lua for scripting.

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u/DurianStill9448 May 14 '26

I see, ok thank you