This code is easy to read, and I bet you can take an intuitive guess at what it does. Lua is not only easy to read, it is also very powerful. The real power of Lua comes from its extensible nature.

Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages deserve more attention for your enterprise software ...

Luao is fully backward compatible with Lua 5.4. Existing Lua scripts will run without modification. Metatable functionality is deprecated in Luao, but still supported for compatibility. Standard Lua ...

ActiveState, creator of many enterprise-grade software language tools and the Komodo family of IDEs, has added support for four major new languages. In addition to editions for Python, Perl, and Tcl, ...

Abstract: As the power of the integrated processors that control today's instruments continues to climb, instrument vendors will increasingly add features that allow users to utilize the added ...

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 ...

The upcoming free-to-play conversion isn't the only big change coming to Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online over the next little while. In a new dev diary released yesterday on the European community ...

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Redis issued a security bulletin and fixed the Redis Lua code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-49844); Because Redis’s Lua script engine has a ...