LÖVE

It depends how you think of the LÖVE functions that makes it OO. Treat them as the tables they really are and it's not looking so OO anymore:
Still works fine and maybe shows more easily the table structure. It's just a bit easier to write it as love.graphics.print, but the meaning is the same.

Don't think of returned objects as objects. For example, love.graphics.newImage returns an image object, but I don't like objects, so I just call it an image type. Remember how in x = 5, x is now of type number? And in var = false, now var is type boolean. Well, just see LÖVE as an extension to Lua, making img = love.graphics.newImage(...) return an image type.

(In fact, I believe it's actually a userdata type, which is one of the 8 types in Lua anyway)

It's still not close enough. I still can't get even 1 frame per second out of this thing.

If you upload your .love to the forums, we can take a look at it and come with more specific suggestions.

maybe lowering the resolution or making the pixels bigger can help. Or maybe you can modify love.run to update the srceen only when a change is made.

I uploaded a love. Look at one of my older posts.

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