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		henrikschroder on Oct 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: If C++ is so bad, what should game develop... Lua is pretty popular because it is a simple scripting language that you can either run in an interpreter, or compile to C. The interpreter is easily embeddable, and you can call C functions from it. All of this makes for pretty rapid development without sacrificing speed for the things that it is suitable for.

silentbicycle on Oct 18, 2009 [–]

Just a nitpick - Lua doesn't compile to C, but rather to Lua VM bytecodes that can be embedded as data in C code.

Lua strikes me as a much nicer interface to C libraries.

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