Battle of the Lua Game Engines: Corona vs. Gideros vs. Love

[Anickyan]

It was the only one that ran on Linux. That was enough for me.

I have had MOAI running in my Linux environment. There are some helpful people in their IRC channel, that helped me set it up.

[kikito]

That's why I said "was". When I started with LÖVE, Moai didn't even exist.

[SiENcE]

Moai is okay but when you come from love the api is painfull.

[Boolsheet]

Also, AGen built Lua with float as the number type. Heretics!

What are the consequences of this?

A lower precision when doing calculations. This should not be a problem unless you expect it to hold 32-bit integers precisely. For example, a 32-bit floating-point number can only represent the integers 1 to 16777216 exactly. After that, it can only represent every other integer. After 33554432, only every fourth integer and so on.

The love.audio module has that problem in some places because it converts the number to a float. Sample-accurate seeking gets a little less accurate after 6 minutes.

[Nixola]

"Other"? Does it mean "even" (when referred to a number)?

[Boolsheet]

"Other"? Does it mean "even" (when referred to a number)?

In this case yes, it's the even numbers.

[ivan]

Also, AGen built Lua with float as the number type. Heretics!

What are the consequences of this?

A lower precision when doing calculations. This should not be a problem unless you expect it to hold 32-bit integers precisely. For example, a 32-bit floating-point number can only represent the integers 1 to 16777216 exactly. After that, it can only represent every other integer. After 33554432, only every fourth integer and so on.

The love.audio module has that problem in some places because it converts the number to a float. Sample-accurate seeking gets a little less accurate after 6 minutes.

Most libraries like OpenGL and DirectX typically work with floats anyways.

[Inny]

I've been addicted to Lua for the better part of a decade, so Love was a natural choice for me.

Interesting side note: like 5 or 6 years ago I had emailed the former maintainer of one of the SDL Lua bindings, asking if he had abandoned the project completely, or just stopped working on it but would be accepting open-source patches. His response came in the form of a complete dump of the entire history of commits of the SVN repository, and asked me to become the lead maintainer for it. I politely declined, as I had no interest in producing binaries and doing release cycle things.

In retrospect, I probably should have converted it to git and put the whole thing on Github.

[josefnpat]

That's why I said "was". When I started with LÖVE, Moai didn't even exist.

I guess I'm in the same boat as kikito.

Moai wasn't really matured enough to run on linux for me, which is why I was attracted to love.

[Inny]

Am I feeling a linux neckbeard thread starting.