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chickensong on April 18, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defold: cross-platform game engine

FWIW, Factorio is primarily C++, with Lua for mods and map editor.

noodletheworld on April 19, 2025 [–]

… space age is a mod.

Obviously any engine will have a lua scripting api written in c++ but if youre somehow casting shade about factorio being a lua success story, youre barking up the wrong tree.

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