The Programming Language Lua
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Lua: download
Source Lua is free software distributed in source code. It may be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, at absolutely no cost. All versions are available for download. The …
Lua: getting started
Lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application. Lua is designed to be a lightweight embeddable scripting language.
Lua: documentation
The official definition of the Lua language is its reference manual, which describes the syntax and the semantics of Lua, the standard libraries, and the C API.
Lua 5.3 Reference Manual - contents
Lua 5.3 Reference Manual The reference manual is the official definition of the Lua language. For a complete introduction to Lua programming, see the book Programming in Lua.
Lua: reference manuals
Dec 22, 2025 · The official definition of the Lua language is its reference manual, which describes the syntax and the semantics of Lua, the standard libraries, and the C API.
Version history - Lua
Dec 23, 2025 · The evolution of Lua is documented in a paper presented at HOPL III, the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, in 2007. See also its …
Demo - Lua
Dec 22, 2025 · To see how Lua programs compile to instructions for the Lua virtual machine, visit Lua Bytecode Explorer
Programming in Lua : 1
Nevertheless, Lua is still the same language; most things that we will see here are valid regardless of how you are using Lua. For a start, we recommend that you use the stand-alone …
Lua: about
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports several programming styles: procedural, object-oriented, functional, data-driven, and data description.