Lua

Also known as Lua language

Lua 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 into applications.

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Lua is a lightweight programming language designed to be embedded within other applications, offering a simple way for software developers to add scripting capabilities to their programs. Because its interpreter is written in standard C code, Lua runs on many different platforms and provides an easy interface for developers to integrate it into their applications.

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Key facts

Programming language.name: Lua
Programming language.logo: Lua-Logo.svg
Programming language.screenshot: Excerpt of Coordinates module in Lua.png
Programming language.screenshot_size: 250px
Programming language.screenshot caption: Screenshot of Lua code from a Wikipedia Lua module using the MediaWiki Scribunto extension
Programming language.paradigm: Multi-paradigm: scripting, imperative (procedural, prototype-based, object-oriented), functional, meta, reflective
Programming language.designer: Roberto IerusalimschyWaldemar CelesLuiz Henrique de Figueiredo
Programming language.typing: Dynamic, strong, duck
Programming language.implementations: [//www.lua.org/download.html Lua], LuaJIT, [//github.com/luavela/luavela LuaVela], MoonSharp,
Programming language.programming language: ANSI C
Programming language.dialects: GSL Shell, Luau
Programming language.influenced by: C++, CLU, Scheme, SNOBOL
Programming language.influenced: GameMonkey, Io, Julia, Red, Ruby, Squirrel, Luau
Programming language.operating system: Cross-platform
Programming language.license: MIT
Programming language.file ext: .lua

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Source code

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This is the repository of Lua development code, as seen by the Lua team. It contains the full history of all commits but is mirrored irregularly. For complete information about Lua, visit Lua.org. Please do not send pull requests. To report issues, post a message to the Lua mailing list.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.lua.org/portugues.html

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file extension: lua
official demo URL: www.lua.org/demo.html
Stack Exchange tag: tex.stackexchange.com/tags/lua
inception: 1993-00-00
source code repository URL: github.com/lua/lua
name: Lua
Commons category: Lua (programming language)
media type: text/x-lua
software version identifier: 5.5.0

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Contents

History
Features
Syntax
Control flow
Functions
Tables
Metatables
Object-oriented programming
Inheritance
Implementation
C API
Modules
Applications
Derived languages
Languages that compile to Lua
Dialects
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

Lua originated in 1993 as a language for extending software applications to meet the increasing demand for customization at the time. It provided the basic facilities of most procedural programming languages, but more complicated or domain-specific features were not included; rather, it included mechanisms for extending the language, allowing programmers to implement such features. As Lua was intended to be a general embeddable extension language, the designers of Lua focused on improving its speed, portability, extensibility and ease-of-use in development.