Now you’ve done it. You got interested in this “Lua scripting” thing you keep hearing about on our forums and reading about on our blog. You tinkered with it for a while. You even got to the point where you were able to understand enough to make your own online game. You’re like Neo, from the Matrix, crafting virtual realities from little glowy bits of green code. You are invincible. Your game gets super popular. It’s great.
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LuaLearners is one of the biggest scripting oriented groups on ROBLOX, with well over 4,500 members. The group was created as a resource for users to ask questions, give feedback, and communicate about all things scripting. The leader of the group is user Coolbob44, and we got a chance to talk with him about the popular community and their website, LuaLearners.org, which he created from scratch.
When you’re on the homepage of LuaLearners.org, you’re struck with the immediate sense that everything is in a state of flux. The Public Wall, where users can have discussions and share feedback right on the homepage, changes every couple of seconds. You can literally watch users work through problems, share images, and congratulate one another on scripting achievements. In the last seven minutes (at the time of this writing) one user shared a custom video player he had just created. Another user linked to a forum thread he had just started, and asked for people’s thoughts on his proposal for a Book Appointment button on ROBLOX. Other users are congratulating a contest winner. Unmitigated, healthy interaction. It’s really neat.
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If you are developing a scripting language, it turns out that allowing clients to load and execute arbitrary bytecode is a really bad idea. Lua, the embedded scripting language that ROBLOX uses, unfortunately allows this by default. After some deliberation, we decided to remove this capability from ROBLOX Lua.
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