SL Lua Alpha Available

[Cristiano]

Second life is getting a much better scripting option based on the popular Lua language (the Luau variant). This opens up a lot of new possibilities for scripting in SL. It is available on the beta grid for testing.

https://community.secondlife.com/news/tools-and-technology/your-next-frontier-of-virtual-scripting-slua-alpha-arrives-r11167/?utm_source=socials&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=technews&utm_content=slua

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I'm ALLL for better and more efficient scripting! ...but also worried this will accidentally create new ways to grief. We'll have to see....

EDIT: Also really happy they are adding built in data tables. MAYBE that will make some game scripts a lot more efficient...

 

[Noodles]

Cool, I want to try this. I may be disappointed but its the one new feature I have been the most excited for.

 

[Madi Perth]

I've been impressed what I've seen so far. Once it hits main stream should be a very good addition to the SL tool box.

 

[Noodles]

I played around with it a bit, mostly just directing the weather box example script to get an idea of how it works. I did manage to get it to pull a different API and return data. I want to next start stripping some things out of the example, because I am not sure how much is actually needed.

 

[Free]

SLua has gone to open beta:

Announcing the SLua Open Beta: Modern Scripting Comes to Second Life

There's a project viewer, a plugin for VS Code for grammar, syntax , etc. And several "SLua beta" regions are now available on the grid for running SLua scripts.

 

[Noodles]

Time to see if my Taylor Swift quote generator works on the main grid I guess.