title: A Little Lua
date: Wed Jul 15 2026

# A Little Lua

Since signing up for SDF I've thought
about getting back into programming as a
hobby.  I used to write a bunch of Emacs
Lisp after first seriously getting into
programming using Chicken Scheme and
watching the SICP lectures on Youtube.
I'd muddled around with Python and
Javascript before then but never really
understood what I was doing.

As a basic member I have access to
Racket and tried to write some in Emacs,
but often I access SDF via
connect.sdf.org, and hitting C-n to go
down a line opens up a new browser
window...but I've been using vim more
anyway, which makes using any kind of
Scheme feel weird.

So I looked around at the other
languages I could use and saw Lua and
gave it a go.  Seems like a fun little
language, and in ways like Scheme except
everything is a table rather than a
list.

Only problem is, I have no idea what I'd
want to program nowadays.  When I was
writing Emacs Lisp it was to build
dashboards and tools on top of Org Mode
to help me be a productive person, but
now I do everything with index cards and
a little box.

Ideas for projects welcome.