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Comment by BanazirGalbasi | Hacker News Reader

Because Lua's Hello World is just `print("hello, world")`, which looks a lot like Python and doesn't tell you much about actually using the language.

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The point is, it shouldn’t be too hard just to find an example and get a sense of the language.

Learn x in y is always my goto: https://learnxinyminutes.com/lua/

So put a slightly more informative hello world example then.

Look at the Go homepage. Or Nim. (But not Rust sadly.)

Rather than Hello World, I'd rather see something like a classic Fibonacci calculator with recursion. That way you see function definitions, variable typing, math operations (Lua doesn't have increment/decrement operators or augmented assignments), and even tail-call recursion if it's an option. Hello World is really only useful as an environment verification - do you have your machine set up so you can run the code, or are you missing something?

Look at the Go homepage. It has a variety of examples.

  function fib(a)
    return countfib(1,1,a)
  end
  function countfib(a,b,n)
    if n == 1 then
      return a
    else
      -- proper tail call
      return countfib(b,a+b,n-1)
    end
  end
  print(fib(6)) --> 8

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