This is a simple tutorial to the Lua programming language. We use last version of Lua (currently is 5.4.6) to learning. Lua is one of the simplest general purpose programming languages, and it is a ...

Source code for all examples are available on GitHub at react-lua-tutorial. Note that examples in the repository are written in Luau and are fully compatible with untyped Lua code.

Lua is an interpreted, cross-platform, embeddable, performant and low-footprint language. Lua's popularity is on the rise in the last couple of years. Simple design and efficient usage of resources ...

However, there is a substantial and obvious lack of static analysis tools and vulnerable code corpora for Lua as compared to other increasingly popular languages, such as PHP, Python and JavaScript.