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It's more minimalistic, that's true. But there's nothing stopping you writing or downloading an array library so you can do this:

  enemies = array.filter(enemies, function(e) return e.alive end)

Or even setting a metatable so you can do:

  enemies = enemies.filter(function(e) return e.alive end)

by xigoi11 hours ago|

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Due to the embedded nature of Lua, it’s often impossible or difficult to use libraries. And I don’t want to reimplement basic functionality every time I start a new project.

by pythonaut_166 hours ago|

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That seems like a contextual problem, not a Lua problem.

If you're in Love and/or control the environment you're free to bring in whatever libraries you want. Or to build your wrapper to support multiple files from the user.

Like you could suffer from a bad embedded scripting setup with any language. Granted if it was embedded Python or Javascript you would get a bit more for builtin if they embed a full implementation. But also embedding Lua with support for user supplied libraries is less effort than embedding a whole Python/JS runtime

by embedding-shape10 hours ago|

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> Due to the embedded nature of Lua, it’s often impossible or difficult to use libraries.

Last time I used LÖVE that wasn't the case, nor does it seem to be the case today, you can require libraries or even use LuaRocks if that is what you prefer, and everything just works.

by onehair12 hours ago|

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well, it is true that the second one is more concise.

The only difference is that one of the language is embedded and barely takes any place. it's just a few C files :-D It offers just enough functionality while not making it overly complicated to make basic things.

The other one is way way bigger. and even Array.filter didn't exist from the start

by xigoi11 hours ago|

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Alright, here is Janet, which is designed to be embeddable just like Lua:

  (set enemies (filter |($ :alive) enemies))

Though JavaScript has QuickJS, which is also lightweight.

by onehair6 minutes ago|

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Janet does look impressive +1