Re: [GD-General] Scripting in Lua tutorial

[Eero P. <epa...@ko...>]

Javier Arevalo wrote:
> 
> Lua is simple and small. Phyton is complex and big.

Tom Forsyth wrote:
 > It depends whether you want "just" a scripting language, in which case Lua
 > seems to be very light and simple,


I would just like add my comment: Don't let the small size of Lua fool
you to think that it is "too simple". I am still starting with it, but
much of Lua programming is metaprogramming. This seems to have both
advantages and disadvantages, the language is very powerful for the user
who knows how to use it, but the novice user might wish for rigid
framework built in into the languge, instead of being metaprogrammed
on it.

This doesn't mean that Lua is not suitable for simple scripting.
It has worked ok there for me, and it actually seems to support
constructing safe sandboxed end-user programing environments too.
At the moment I am learning on the middle ground.

Lua and Python both seem to have game developper friendly licenses,
although Lua scores an extra point for having the shorter license
of these two ;-)



		Eero