matiasvlevi/lu5

Lua interpreter for Creative Coding

Lua interpreter for Creative Coding

Website • Documentation • Contributing

Provides a similar experience to p5.js in Lua.

This sketch draws a circle at position 300, 300.

function setup()
    createWindow(600, 600);
end

function draw()
    background('purple');

    circle(300, 300, 32);
end

Run

lu5 file.lua

Install

Windows

Use the installer found on the project's homepage or in the project's releases.

Linux

for Arch based systems, use the AUR

yay -S lu5

for other distributions, you might want to build from source.

Examples

• 3D Game example
• Examples in examples/*.lua
• Examples can also be found in the website's documentation

Note: Run all the examples with make examples

Roadmap

See lu5's roadmap

Contributions

Contributions to expand the lu5 api are welcomed in any form.

Contribution docs are provided for contributions with Pull requests.

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License MIT