One of the things I love about Lua(JIT) is that I do not have to have the separation of core engine (e.g. C or C++), scripting (e.g. Lua or Python), and serialized data (e.g. XML, JSON, something custom) anymore. I used to develop in that traditional way, and it was so ugly. Translating between the...

I looked it up and everything just crashes
All I want to do is save a variable

Var = {}
var.number = 0 -- What I want to save

Saving the complete var wouldnt be negative though I lurked here googeled etc everything always comes with (String expected got nil)

Help?