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 ...

Lua is one of a handful of languages that are helping kids try their hand at software programming amid a boom in online games and applications for devices such as the iPhone.

Although this adoption delay was once justified due to technical issues, based on our experience in machine-to-machine (M2M) communication systems, the Lua programming language is very well suited ...