17 stories tagged lua, newest first.
183 points by andsoitis | 28 comments
A personal blog card by Dave (ratfactor) on the appeal of tiny programs and small programming languages like Forth, Lisp, Tcl, and Lua, with examples of minimal implementations.
59 points by ibobev | 18 comments
A blog post examining cut and disabled rendering features in Sonic 06, such as shader variants, shadow maps, point lights and reflections, found while building Marathon Recompiled.
21 points by rd07 | 3 comments
Release blog post for Pragtical v3.14.0, a Lua-based code editor, detailing application menus, floating views, workspace sessions, a new Plugin Manager and lower idle CPU.
17 points by _samt_ | 4 comments
A blog post by the author of LuaRT describing clx, a compiler that translates Lua 5.5 source into C++ to produce native executables without a Lua VM.
160 points by Lyngbakr | 64 comments
Homepage of Teal, a statically-typed dialect of Lua, with links to about, playground, download, docs, and community.
58 points by cat-whisperer | 12 comments
Interactive web playground for ito, a Lua library for building terminal UIs, with editable example code and a live preview rendered via WebAssembly.
453 points by rsaarelm | 139 comments
Official NetHack DevTeam announcement of the NetHack 5.0.0 release, describing architectural changes, over 3100 fixes, and save-file incompatibility.
402 points by cl3misch | 202 comments
GitHub repository for LÖVE, an open-source framework for making 2D games in Lua.
329 points by tosh | 120 comments
GitHub repository for Hammerspoon, an open-source macOS desktop automation tool scripted with Lua.
380 points by km | 121 comments
Lua.org versions page section describing the Lua 5.5 release of the Lua programming language.
443 points by memcorruption | 113 comments
A security research blog post explaining how Lua bytecode flaws in the game Factorio can be exploited for memory corruption and remote code execution.
617 points by celadevra_ | 179 comments
Product page for Picotron, Lexaloffle's fantasy workstation with a toy OS and built-in tools for making pixel art games, music and demos in Lua.
338 points by orlp | 124 comments
Blog post recounting a teenage anecdote about exploiting predictable randomness in World of Warcraft Lua add-ons, framed as a computer security story.
412 points by pabs3 | 61 comments
Homepage of Naev, an open-source 2D space exploration, trading and combat game, showing a 0.10.0 release trailer video.
482 points by rapnie | 144 comments
Homepage of LÖVE, a free open-source framework for making 2D games in Lua on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, with download links.
527 points by tambourine_man | 453 comments
Getting Started documentation page for LazyVim, a Neovim configuration built on lazy.nvim that aims to make customizing and extending the editor easy.
327 points by mooreds | 183 comments
A blog post by Matt Blewitt praising Lua as a simple, embeddable little language, with examples of why the author likes it.