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In Lua it's straight forward and real easy to learn. It is also used in video games for Ai scripts, spawns and etc. Also let's not forget, it was used to make the world wide bodacious and awesome Counter-Strike 2D!
Tell me what you guys think.
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Lua vs. C++
34 repliesIn Lua it's straight forward and real easy to learn. It is also used in video games for Ai scripts, spawns and etc. Also let's not forget, it was used to make the world wide bodacious and awesome Counter-Strike 2D!
Tell me what you guys think.
LUA is like scripted based.
Just look, it has two friggin' plus signs! (++)
Assassin moder has writtenC++ is a programming language.
LUA is like scripted based.
LUA is like scripted based.
Let's say i wanted to make a game. I know I would use Lua for the game objects and etc. but what would I use C++ for?
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Deleted User Greenhawk has writtenLet's say i wanted to make a game. I know I would use Lua for the game objects and etc. but what would I use C++ for?
You would use C++ for everything.
Greenhawk has writtenAlso let's not forget, it was used to make the world wide bodacious and awesome Counter-Strike 2D!
That's wrong. CS2D wasn't made in Lua. I just "embedded" a Lua script engine in CS2D so you can modify stuff using Lua scripts (older versions of CS2D didn't even have any Lua at all. I added it with later updates).
Games are commonly not completely written in scripting languages like Lua because it would simply be too slow. There are frameworks to script entire games anyway. Löve for example https://love2d.org - but it probably isn't a good idea for large and complex games because of the speed. It works well for little games though.
The main difference between Lua and C++: C++ and most other programming languages are compiled to machine code. This is what the CPU understands and therefore it makes the execution as fast as possible. Scripting languages are either compiled to byte code when needed (just in time compiling) or they are not compiled at all but parsed directly. Both is slower than simply executing precompiled machine code. Especially parsing is always significantly slower. Byte code is marginally slower (Java for example is compiled to byte code for the Java VM).
DC: Ohhhh ok. I was gonna use Love2d for a big project too, but now I gotta find another framework 
. Anyway thanks for the clarity and thanks to the others too 
DC: As far as my big project which would be a To Down shooter, would Blitwizard 2D be a good choice? Greenhawk: You can also use C# indeed. I'm using it to programming with it. It's simple, also, I don't saw any C++ code, just C# so..Second: Blitwizard 2D is open source so you can use both.
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I just realized that you can download the BlitzMax successor, Monkey X, for free!
That's probably the best choice for you.
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Deleted User Alpha Beta: CS2D is still written in BlitzMax. And I would not suggest you using BlitzPlus because its graphics features sucks. I'm using it for console-based applications though.
But yeah, you can try Monkey.
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Deleted User Alpha Beta: Well, you've said that it was written in BlitzMax, so I thought...
Greenhawk: Ye.... if you even don't do any game then start to create own engine.. I don't see that. Re: Lua vs. C++
Deleted User Assassin moder: I can't see any problems with that.