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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.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux  Provided by distribution
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • BSD  Provided by distribution
  • iPad
  • Android Wear
  • Haiku
  • AmigaOS
  • Playstation
  • MorphOS
194likes

Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Embeddable
  2.  Support for scripting
  3.  Configuration
  4.  Command line interface

Lua News & Activities

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Recent News

Recent activities

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Comments and Reviews

   
RemovedUser
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Its awesome for embedding!

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Guest
0

My favorite language!

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roalcantara
0

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

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EmasXP
0

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

Luiz Carlos Alves Santos

Do we have to manually implement it?

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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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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Lua, and it has gotten 194 likes

Lua was added to AlternativeTo by nitrofurano on and this page was last updated .