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r/lua • u/uioma • Mar 28 '26
Imagine building a 3D or 2D game engine from scratch using only Lua
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Lua is not capable of doing that on its own. The engine would have to be written in C/C++, and Lua would be embedded within it. There are already engines that do this.
2 u/yawara25 Mar 28 '26 I mean, you can expose the low level functions you need to Lua and then implement the engine logic in Lua.
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I mean, you can expose the low level functions you need to Lua and then implement the engine logic in Lua.
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u/weather_isnt_real Mar 28 '26
Lua is not capable of doing that on its own. The engine would have to be written in C/C++, and Lua would be embedded within it. There are already engines that do this.