Merits to whom merits belong… “The BitCave” is run by @bitassassin, I am just one of the guests there 
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@Smokestacks If you want to learn a language “just” to prepare for Stonehearth, apart from Lua you might want to take a look into JavaScript (later jQuery, Ember.js and Handlebars). I would say Lua and JS are similar in terms of effort to learn, but JS has one advantage… you can use it 
. What I mean is that you can start implementing JS in a website you might be already running and you have a nice learning experience, where Lua is a bit more theoretical until you start coding for another game.