So this might sound silly, because the nspire has native Lua support. Still, it's programming flow isn't optimal for programming games, mainly due to the lack of key repeat. So I'm asking if someone could port LuaZM to the nspire? (I think LuaZM is written in c, so that should be fairly easy)

TIA and kudos to anyone who pulls this off!

You will also get cherries.

Something that would be cool is a way to integrate new libraries in the already existing Lua engine. Maybe with Ndless?

dammit now I have to reply.

You know, event-based programming, in Nspire-Lua, is great.
It is good for designing of software's and applications. It has four main advantages and/or uses: flexibility, suitability for graphical interfaces, ease of development, and simplicity of programming. Event driven programming is one among the few largely flexible programming language types. It allows the programmer to visually design the form to their needs and program the objects on the form with a huge range of events that can do different things when run.
I believe it's a very nice choice from TI to have put their API that way, because, for example, haveing a big while loop for the keypresses wouldn't be very good for big scripts, especially since we only have one big script file.


(because source has to be linked : http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-event-driven-programming-good-for )



anyway, for those wanting to port LuaZM, go ahead, it can only be fun

Since we already do have a functioning Lua supported by TI, I'm not sure this will happen. I'd also guess that files for one version of Lua wouldn't work with the other, and that could get a little confusing. Just observations.

I don't see how a big bunch of keypress checks hurts a program? Most of the time you shouldn't have your keychecks in a while loop unless you consider the big loop to be it.

It kind of makes everything global, though.

Perhaps it would be possible to add in luaJIT to make blazing fast lua. http://luajit.org/index.html