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Would you recommend learning Lua first before going into moonscript ?

• moneyrich 13y ago
  i'm looking at this too, and i would say no... use a framework that has most of the stuff you will need built in, it will make your life easier. adapting to other lua will just be learning the underlying features and the cool stuff you never learned, might make you a better scripter.
• jacktoole1 13y ago
  I learned them concurrently, translating lua in Programming in Lua into the equivalent moonscript. It's a pretty strait-forward translation and is definitely doable. I already had experience with a reasonable variety of languages before learning it though, and for people still getting into programming, I think Lua is a simpler and still awesome language. I don't think it's possible to learn moonscript without learning lua concurrently, since lua makes up so much of the underlying semantics. So I think the choice is either (a) learn lua, or (b) learn lua and moonscript for some nice syntactic sugar.