• Owl
    15•2 months ago

    The comments under this post should be pinned on lua.org. They’re the greatest advertisement for the language

    • @[email protected]
      11•2 months ago

      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

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 months ago

      There are dozens of us. Dozens!

      (I am trying to set up an mail system on my server using modems and am suffering help)

      • @[email protected]English
        14•2 months ago

        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.

        …

        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.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 months ago

    To my surprise, I just found out that my favorite e-books launcher was entirely developed with Lua.

        • @[email protected]
          6•2 months ago

          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