[HN Gopher] SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids simil...
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SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea
Author : kristianp
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-10-26 09:43 UTC (1 days ago)
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| mdaniel wrote:
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| VWWHFSfQ wrote:
| nah, Lua's great.
| dang wrote:
| Please don't do programming language flamewar on HN. We've been
| trying since the beginning to avoid that here.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| echelon wrote:
| Did antirez receive any of the upsides from Redis
| commercialization? Or was that another group that took his code
| and ran with it?
| dudus wrote:
| I believe he sold his participation on the redis company far
| before the shit show.
| fermigier wrote:
| Title should say it's 13 years old and currently unmaintained.
|
| BTW: a modern, maintained alternative (With Python instead of
| Lua) would be Pyxel (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel ->
| discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899520).
| catwell wrote:
| There are several alternatives using Lua too, including for
| instance PICO-8 https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
| d3VwsX wrote:
| And TIC-80 (https://tic80.com/). It can be used with "lua,
| ruby, js, moon, fennel, scheme, squirrel, wren, wasm, janet
| or python".
| gus_massa wrote:
| It has a few changes dinduring 2020. Were all of them reverted?
| rzzzt wrote:
| Processing and LOVE are also similar.
| dTal wrote:
| +1 to LOVE, it's a capable rapid prototyping tool. I learned
| programming on QBasic, but if I were starting out today then
| LOVE is the tool I would want to be handed.
| melon_tusk wrote:
| What is antirez doing these days? His github history suddenly
| dropped to zero it seems.
| catwell wrote:
| He wrote a science-fiction book, then did some things with
| e-ink hardware and some with AI.
| antirez wrote:
| Hi! Mostly writing, embedded programming and some AI stuff.
| Thanks for the interest :) and right now enjoying NYC.
| chkas wrote:
| Another programming environment for kids with its own simple
| programming language: https://easylang.online/ide/
| jll29 wrote:
| I was looking for something to teach 11-year-olds a couple of
| years ago, and ended up using Python with a turtle graphics
| library; this would have been another great alternative.
|
| Programming using a language like Lua has the advantage over
| Scratch-like environments (which a friend suggested I use
| instead) that you can talk about your code more easily if it is
| based on keyboard entry of keywords and operators rather than GUI
| events (such as moving graphical blocks by drag and drop) -
| although that is based on my intuition rather than backed up by
| any empirical study (please let me know if you are aware of one
| to support or refute this).
| nxobject wrote:
| Lua as a teaching language's got a strength for everyone - if
| you're a pragmatic person, Lua offers a fantastic offramp to
| gamedev; if you're a theoretically-inclined person, Lua's an
| elegant language - and it's wonderful to formative programming
| experiences with elegant languages. (I started with SICP
| Scheme.)
| ferfumarma wrote:
| the dragonruby game engine looks similar.
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| https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk
| vitiral wrote:
| Awesome, I'm working on something similar:
| https://lua.civboot.org
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