A new low-level programming language, Terra, has been designed to work with Lua to generate code for high performance computing. Lua is a lightweight embeddable scripting language that combines simple ...

A tutorial on integrating Lua as a simple scripting language into a Windows C++ RPG engine. Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data ...

CIO’s Esther Schindler reports on the up-and-coming languages some developers wish they were coding with today. No surprise that Groovy, Scala, and Clojure top the list; but what’s all this about Lua ...

At the age of 12, Alex Foyt is already a veteran of creating online games, boasting 98 titles in six years, including a survival challenge that involves dodging carrots and chickens falling from the ...

However, while we’ve covered several in depth, those five dynamic languages are not the only ones developers use. Since every programming language is a tool suited to solve a particular problem, it ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

The What Else: Widely-used in the AV and IT industries among major control system manufacturers, Lua scripting is a universal language that enables products from third-party vendors to communicate and ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...