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I've worked with moai (1) reasonably extensively, and the lua in it is not easy to use and sucks. Specifically, a project that is composed entirely of lua with no other dependencies is indeed very easy to build and maintain. I agree. However, my $0.02 would be that if you plan to have a large project with many 3rd party dependencies, then cmake, visual studio, C++, lua and the time spent jumping between them and maintaining those dependencies in a custom build toolchain will cost you more time and effort than the benefits that lua offers (2). ...and you do, indeed, need to do that, because c++ lacks a centralized package ecosystem and unified build tooling; and as operating systems change, existing builds stop working. So, yes, you may consider my answer to be 'rust'; but the actual answer is 'not C++ and not cmake'. That all said, lua is

MOAI can do it. http://github.com/moai/moai-dev/

Also, MOAI - which is about to get a 2.0 release: http://github.com/moai/moai-dev.git

Front ends in Lua? Say no more: http://github.com/moai/moai-dev/

MOAI SDK: https://github.com/moai/moai-community MOAI DEV: https://github.com/moai/moai-dev Warning: some effort is required, but .. once you get the hosts running on all platform targets (Win/MacOS/Linux/iOS/Android/&etc.), the true value shines and cross-platform nirvana can be attained. Bonus points for having Hanappe/Flower and/or whatever else involved as a 'higher layer' UI management abstraction on top of the GL pipeline ..

Give MOAI a try - we solved this problem recently with the addition of the pito tool (pito means "navel", "whistle" and "beer", in Rapa'nui) which generates complete host projects for every platform MOAI supports. The end result, you really can run the same code everywhere. (http://github.com/moai/moai-dev)

MOAI has some nice features that make OpenGL-based path rendering interesting: https://github.com/moai/moai-dev/blob/develop/samples/vector...

If you want to get into grid programming, the MOAI framework has pretty good support, and the samples are pretty easy to grok: https://github.com/moai/moai-dev/blob/develop/samples/grid-h...

Moai is opensource and the html host has been merged. http://github.com/moai/moai-dev , (moaifiddle is also opensource but doesn't actually build the moaijs.js file (it just uses a prebuilt one. http://github.com/halfnelson/moaifiddle) Third party dependencies are all statically linked and compiled by emscripten too, so the moaijs.js includes box2d, lua, libpng, libjpg, tinyxml all compiled in from their sources. Best of luck!

I've been working with MOAI for 3 years now, so I guess I'm quite biased - but I find it awesome. Yes, the Docs - well these are generated docs, courtesy of doxygen. You really need to start at the wiki, and then work your way through all the samples in $MOAI_ROOT/samples/ http://getmoai.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page And of course the tutorials and other refs from the github: https://github.com/moai/moai-dev/ MOAI does take some patience - but on the other side of that effort, is a fantastic framework that makes game development easy and fun. There's something just so elegant about it!

refer to https://github.com/moai/moai-dev

> only one commercial-quality game (Crimson Steam Pirates) has been released in it. DFA will count once it's out, I guess, but that's a ways away. Add Wolf Toss, and the WIP Shadowrun Returns. Both DFA [Doublefine Adventure] and Shadowrun should be done by the end of the year. Regarding the bugs, I'm sure tat they'd be happy to discuss them, but it's night time in Seattle now. You can drop a line at their forums (http://getmoai.com/forums) or the Github bug tracker (https://github.com/moai/moai-dev/issues). For the documentation, it is constantly improving. The API docs still have weak points, but the high level overview and the (now partly annotated) examples go a long way. You may want to check these pages: Overview of the runtime: http://getmoai.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Moai_Runtime More details: http://getmoai.com/wiki/index.ph