This is awesome. I will take [a single huge list of self-explanatory example snippets (with a few short comments here and there) for 95% of use cases] over [detailed walls-of-text docs pages spread across a hierarchy of topics] any day.
This method, however, is PERFECT for anyone who already knows how to program. I love it, and actually came here to say that I wish everything everywhere had a page like this on the web.
The brass tax, get down to business, of ANY topic in 15 minutes.
Or the brass tacks, even:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-down-to-brass-tacks.h...
Sadly, English isn't as logical as Lua.
That said, Lua is quite the special case, as it does not require much time to get up and running with it. This is one of the reasons why it is the scripting language of Redis by the way (Antirez even wrote Total time require to master it enough? 5 minutes.[1] regarding building scripts for Redis).
[1]:http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/scripting-branch-released.ht...