Lua

Name: Lua
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

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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.

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roalcantara

★

• Top positive comment 9 months ago • 0 replies

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

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EmasXP

Comment • over 10 years ago • 1 reply

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

LuizC91

Do we have to manually implement it?

Reply written 12 months ago

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Said about Lua as an alternative

Can do all that PHP does. Usable for all sorts of software, not just web. Super slim, the opposite of bloatware. Summary: maximum benefit, minimum burden.

Positive comment • almost 4 years ago • as an alternative to PHP

PHP