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Lua

Lua (/ˈluː.ə/, LOO-ə; from Portuguese: lua meaning moon) is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications. Lua is cross-platform software, since the interpreter of compiled bytecode is written in ANSI C, and Lua has a relatively simple C application programming interface (API) to embed it…

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Designed by
Roberto Ierusalimschy Waldemar Celes Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
Filename extensions
.lua
First appeared
1993; 33 years ago (1993)
Implementation language
ANSI C
License
MIT
OS
Cross-platform

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Lua

Nodes185
Edges184
Triples230
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010811
Components1

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Lua

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related to Further reading · 82
Lua → ACM, ACM Queue, An Introduction, Apress, April, Archived, Ash, Beginning Lua Programming, Brazil, Brown, Celes, Chapters, Charles River Media, Coding Places, Communications, Computerworld, Course Technology PTR, December, Embeddable, Eye
has application · 25
Lua → Adobe Lightroom, Aerospike, Also, Crysis, Dota, FreeBSD, Front Line Award, Game Developer, GameDev, Garry's Mod, In, January, MediaWiki, Moho, NetBSD, Notable, On, Payday, Phantasy Star Online, Programming Tools
related to history · 15
Lua → Brazil, Brazilian, Computer Graphics Technology Group, Figueiredo, From, In, Janeiro, Luiz Henrique, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio, Roberto Ierusalimschy, Tecgraf, Tecgraf's, Those, Waldemar Celes
related to Dialects · 14
Lua → Garry's Mod, Glua, In, JIT, JIT-enabled Lua, LuaJIT, Luau, PICO-8, PICO-8 Lua, Pluto, Ravi, Roblox Corporation, Shine, Teal
related to Languages that compile to Lua · 14
Lua → Amulet, CoffeeScript, Fennel, Haxe, Itch, Lisp, Lua/JavaScript, LuaJIT, LunarML, ML-like, MoonScript, Standard ML, This, Urn
related to C API · 11
Lua → Advanced, API, For, Marshalling, Negative, Python's API, The API, The Lua, The Lua API's, To, When
related to Implementation · 10
Lua → Android's Dalvik, CPUs, JIT, Like, Lua VM, Parrot, PCScheme's VM, The, VM, VMs
related to Modules · 10
Lua → Besides, CPAN, Extension, For, Lua API, LuaRocks, Prewritten Lua, Python, RubyGems, When
related to External links · 8
Lua → CommunityLua Forum Archived, December, Official, Package, September, Users Archived, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineLuaDistLua Rocks
related to Object-oriented programming · 7
Lua → Although Lua, An, Inheritance, JavaScript, New, Self, There

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LuaDesigned byRoberto Ierusalimschy Waldemar Celes Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo1.00infobox
LuaFilename extensions.lua1.00infobox
LuaFirst appeared1993; 33 years ago (1993)1.00infobox
LuaImplementation languageANSI C1.00infobox
LuaLicenseMIT1.00infobox
LuaOSCross-platform1.00infobox
LuaParadigmMulti-paradigm: scripting, imperative (procedural, prototype-based, object-oriented), functional, meta, reflective1.00infobox
LuaStable release5.5.1 / 24 July 2026; 30 days ago (24 July 2026)1.00infobox
LuaTyping disciplineDynamic, strong, duck1.00infobox
LuaWebsitelua.org1.00infobox
Boolean valuesinstance ofIt supports only a small number of atomic data structures0.80text
numbersinstance ofIt supports only a small number of atomic data structures0.80text

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