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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...