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Lua

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Created by Lua

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Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. More Info »

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Lua was added by nitrofurano in Dec 2010 and the latest update was made in Apr 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2020. It's possible to update the information on Lua or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by EmasXP

about Lua · Jul 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

If it only had utf-8 built in...

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