Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 3: Object-oriented behavior
JavaScript’s prototype-based classes compared to a Lua class pattern.
Tyler Neylon
Tyler Neylon is a machine learning engineer with experience developing video games with Lua and C. He is the author of a popular Lua tutorial—"Learn Lua in 15 Minutes"—and has previously worked at several small startups as well as Medium, Google, and Microsoft. While earning his PhD in applied math, he developed a surprisingly high tolerance for ramen ingestion, a dietary practice he occasionally exercises to this day.
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Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 2: Control flow and data structures
The guts of Lua: functions, loops, and tables.
Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 1: An introduction to Lua
If you know JavaScript, learning Lua is a snap, as Tyler Neylon explains in this first in a series of three posts.