Lua is a scripting language born in Brazil and is quite special. Lua, compared to the well-known programming languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby, stands out for its extreme compactness, ...

This is a beginner-friendly guide to the Lua programming language. This guide is intended for people that are completely new to programming as well as folks that already might have experience with ...

This is a simple tutorial to the Lua programming language. We use last version of Lua (currently is 5.4.6) to learning. Lua is one of the simplest general purpose programming languages, and it is a ...

The language enables developers to declare external procedures, allowing integration with Lua and C libraries through the LuaJIT foreign function interface. Luon, a newly introduced high-level ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Roberto Ierusalimschy, is as close to a celebrity programmer as things get - the Brazilian academic is world-renowned ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...

What sets Lua apart from other scripting languages is its particular set of goals: simplicity, small size, portability, and embeddability. The entire implementation of Lua has 25,000 lines of C code; ...