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I just can't stand Lua as a language to code games in. C# is so much nicer when writing complicated algorithms. For a flappy bird game it's probably fine.

And if I absolutely had to use Lua, wouldn't Defold be a better alternative. At Least for mobile.

Disclosure: Been in the mobile games industry full time since 2010.

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You could use other languages that are transpiled to Lua, such as Fennel [0] which has lisp syntax, Moonscript [1] which powers itch.io and Teal [2] which is basically typed lua.

[0] https://fennel-lang.org/ [1] https://moonscript.org/ [2] https://github.com/teal-language/tl

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