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At work I had to learn Lua on the spot to work on the main task. Took about a day to actually go through the tutorial at a rate that actually leaves you knowing it. I was thinking I'd like to work on a formal project so that I could add it to my resume as a language I formally know.

What do you think would be some legitimate use scenarios for Lua? One seems if you already have a standing project but you want to open part of it to essentially botting. Another possibly if you want to expose the potential for programming language level filter creation.

At work I had to learn Lua on the spot to work on the main task. Took about a day to actually go through the tutorial at a rate that actually leaves you knowing it. I was thinking I'd like to work on a formal project so that I could add it to my resume as a language I formally know. What do you think would be some legitimate use scenarios for Lua? One seems if you already have a standing project but you want to open part of it to essentially botting. Another possibly if you want to expose the potential for programming language level filter creation.

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[–] • 1 pt

Lua scripts can be used with Neovim add on modules if you are interested in setting up your own editor and having a custom IDE experience. It's also used by some Emulators, so if you're into old video games and ROM hacking, it can be a useful tool.

Other than that it's likely a complete waste of time.

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Seems like it's actually a really great language with really great use case potential. The language is basically javascript but even quicker and easier to learn. You can incredibly and simply open up a function in your c program to the lua script or vice versa.

For instance if you had a starcraft type project and you wanted to make it so the user could make custom scenarios for a custom map, instead of writing your whole own system to handle this a lua script would be BY FAR the best route to go.

The syntax of the language only takes one full day of tutorial go through. And the c integration probably another half day.

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my only experience with lua is ffxi privqte servers and some game mods like stardew, other than that there are better formats