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by rweichler 3452 days ago
Hard to have this mindset when your tool of choice is LuaJIT... sighs
3 comments

Get a job in games :)
Seconded! LuaJIT is extremely popular in gaming, you'll have no time finding work in that industry; finding people for it is hard when Javascript is so FOTM.

Stay away from EA and Amazon. Don't bother applying to unity shops either, those generally don't use Lua at all.

I really want to write a game in Love2d one day. https://love2d.org/
But... where?
Play some games man!

Here's a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lua-scripted_video_ga...

I know, but I don't know which ones are good...
Or learn Machine learning and get a job in one of these companies: http://torch.ch/whoweare.html
Echoing games comments... get to work on Factorio or mods for it!