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    There are two types of Lua users (lemmy.cafe)
    submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    Can you share its name ?

    [–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Koreader. I don't know why I didn't in the first place. lol

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 month ago

    Luanti designers too.

    [–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

    Me, an XPlane boi. Quietly flying with my Lua scripts.

    [–] klu9@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

    Conky users?

    [–] _____@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Lua is awesome, I added some scripting to toggle replay buffer on OBS and to save recording from buffer then restart the buffer. IE: Save last 10-15 minutes of gameplay.

    Very cool to do it in Lua.

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

    Lua is awesome

    https://awesomewm.org/

    It literally is

    [–] sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

    Nmap users?

    [–] F04118F@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

    I'll add DCS World modders, thank you to the heroes who brave Lua and the DCS API to bring us obscure planes and helicopters!

    [–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

    Farming Simulator modders!

    [–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Tarantool db users

    [–] kometes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Wireshark dissector devs

    [–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Project zomboid dev

    [–] Truscape@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

    And modders

    [–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Luanti (formerly Minetest) and LΓ–VE. Oh, and TIC-80

    [–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Defold.

    [–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

    People who create LMOD modules

    [–] The_Jit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    Mudlet users.

    [–] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

    Nginx/openresty/kong. Redis/valkey.

    [–] DJalexTheGameDev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    Balatro, gmod, srb2 modding.

    [–] borax7385@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    Don't forget the Silverbullet users.

    [–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Also, Factorio. :: spoiler

    33€ well spent.

    ::

    [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

    Some features of the MediaWiki engine run on Lua, too!

    [–] amon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    playdate dev

    [–] CreatingMachines@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

    Avoid them both.

    [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Since y'all love LUA so much, what's it's advantage over things like micropython?

    [–] LorIps@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Pain and suffering (aka an arrays base index is one)

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