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  1. Lua Language

What is Lua?

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What is Lua?

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

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 with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Where does Lua come from?

Lua is designed, implemented, and maintained by a team at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

It was designed by Roberto Lerusalimschy, Waldemar Celes and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo.

What does Lua mean?

"Lua" (pronounced LOO-ah) means "Moon" in Portuguese.

Source: Alexandre Nakonechnyj (Grafik-Design) und Lua-Team (PostScript-Code) / Public domain
Source: Governo do Brasil / Public domain
Source: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Source: Gregory H. Revera / CC BY-SA