Lua

194 likes

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

Cost / License

Free
Open Source

Application type

Programming Language

Origin

Brazil

Platforms

Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
BSD
iPad
Android Wear
Haiku
AmigaOS
Playstation
MorphOS

Lua alternatives

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Features

Properties

Lightweight

Features

Embeddable
Support for scripting
Configuration
Command line interface

Lua News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent activities

Croco Loki liked Lua
21 days ago
Sam Siroos liked Lua
about 1 month ago
Alexander Walz added Lua as alternative to Agena
about 2 months ago
Gergely Turi added Lua as alternative to Umka
2 months ago
mqdlou liked Lua
3 months ago
hoxosta-playing865 liked Lua
3 months ago
Paul added Lua as alternative to Rhombus Programming Language
3 months ago
indrayn liked Lua
4 months ago
nigh7-0wl-gamer liked Lua
5 months ago
guenna3 liked Lua
5 months ago

Comments and Reviews

RemovedUser

★★★★★

Sep 12, 2023

Its awesome for embedding!

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Guest

★★★★★

Jul 26, 2022

My favorite language!

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roalcantara

★★★★★

Apr 25, 2021

Cuz it reminds me of ruby quite a bit.. 🤓

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EmasXP

CommentJul 1, 2011

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

Luiz Carlos Alves Santos

CommentFeb 10, 2021

Replying to @EmasXP

Do we have to manually implement it?

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What is Lua?

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.