Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
Love2d (the lua engine used here) is really great. If I were teaching a newbie to programming, I'd probably have them start with love. It makes it super easy yo just get something on screen, and you're not screwing around with configuration, build systems and package managers etc (the death of productivity IMO, especially for a beginner). I used it on a recent jam game too (https://wheybags.itch.io/drilbert)