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 ...

Providing a C API that would allow the Lua virtual machine to crash is considered a critical design bug. Most established embedded companies have large repositories of C code, so powerful ...

Lua is freely distributable (under MIT license) open-source codes in C. It is an interpretable language, which means that programs written in it are translated into byte code directly at runtime ...

The release of March’s TIOBE Index of the most popular programming languages saw a few notable changes across the board, notably Lua surging 18 spots in the span of a month to crack the top-20.

Coding is like telling a computer what to do, and in games, it’s how you make stuff happen. Imagine code as a conversation between the creator and the game.