Re: History of Lua aside... note about game usage!

[Garth Dighton <gdighton@...>]

I can say that the latest version of Kamband, an Angband variant
(Angband is a roguelike game), added support for Lua scripting, although
no actual scripts have been written yet. This version came out only last
week, and I was pleasantly surprised. The development team of Zangband,
another variant, have been talking about adding Python support for at
least a year, and then someone comes along and adds Lua to their version
in very short order, instead of talking about it.

I myself am working on a roguelike (not really an Angband variant, but
Angband-inspired) which is almost entirely written in Lua. So far, the
only C portions are Line-of-sight, Pathfinding, and the actual display
code.


-- 
Garth Dighton

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> 
> I wrote this last week:
> 
>  We have this problem: we *feel* that Lua is being used in many places
>  but we don't *know* any other than the 50 or so listed in our site.
> 
>  Is it just a feeling or what? How widely would you say that Lua is used?
> 
> This appeared yesterday in comp.games.development:
> 
>  Of course, the most popular extension languages (Lua, Python, Tcl)
>  are licensed without such strings attached.
> 
> So, at least to this person, Lua rates among the "most popular" languages!
> (With Lua listed first, but he may have sorted the names...)
> 
> This kind of statement is not infrequent in usenet messages that mention Lua
> (see "Lua usenet citations" in http://www.lua.org/links.html ); Lua is
> mentioned as a language that people are (or should be) familiar with.
> Despite this, we still only know those 50 or so uses listed in our site.
> 
> What is your experience? Do people around you know Lua? How did they know about
> it? Did you tell them yourself or was it the other way around? Do you know
> other people that are using Lua but who are not in lua-l? Would you rate Lua
> as a "popular" language? Do you see its popularity increasing?
> 
> We'd really like to know a realistic estimate of the impact of Lua.
> 
> Thanks for any info.
> --lhf