Learn to Develop Lua Applications with Free Books

Posted by sde on Jun 21, 2017 9:03 PM EDT
OSSBlog.org; By Steve Emms
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Lua is a lightweight, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. This cross-platform interpreted language has a simple syntax with powerful data description constructs. Lua aims for simplicity, small size, performance and portability. It has automatic memory management and incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

In the popularity takes, Lua lags behind say Python, Perl, or Ruby for scripting purposes. And Lua is not designed to develop standalone software. But Lua excels as a secondary language. Witness Lua cropping up in kernels, tools, and games.

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