Getting Started With Lua
I recently had a chance to refamiliarize myself with lua for a project at work. A few years ago I spent some time dabbling with Corona SDK, and by extension, with lua. My first impression was that Lua was adequate for scripting tasks, although the syntax for OOP was clunky, and I couldn't see a lot of use for it beyond the Corona SDK platform. In any case, I thought I'd give it another try. I was impressed with how easy it was to get started with lua. I'm on a mac, and the main page has a download link to source code but no pre-compiled binaries. Ok, no problem, I'm a *nix nerd and I'm not afraid of building from source. I was impressed at just how easy that actually was. The entire codebase is just a few dozen files and compiled in ~ 3 seconds on my mac mini. I love languages that I can fit into my pocket, and lua just caught my attention! Here's what to do to build Lua from source: curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz tar zxf lua...