LUA

Lightweight, Embeddable, Fast

Created: 1993 Creators: Roberto Ierusalimschy et al. Typing: Dynamic

// OVERVIEW

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, and data-driven programming.

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Lightweight

~200KB interpreter

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Game Industry

WoW, Roblox, Angry Birds

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Embeddable

C API, easy integration

examples.lua

// USE CASES

Game Scripting

Logic, mods, AI

Embedded

IoT, routers, devices

Config

Neovim, AwesomeWM

Web

OpenResty, scripting

// RESOURCES

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Lua.org

lua.org

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Programming in Lua

lua.org/pil