Jul 3, 2020 · This book is a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming written by Lua's chief architect. Programming in Lua provides a solid base to any …

This is the online version of the first edition of the book Programming in Lua, a detailed and authoritative introduction to all aspects of Lua programming written by Lua's chief architect.

If you are using the stand-alone Lua interpreter, all you have to do to run your first program is to call the interpreter (usually named lua) with the name of the text file that contains your program.

The official definition of the Lua language is its reference manual, which describes the syntax and the semantics of Lua, the standard libraries, and the C API.

To embed Lua into your C or C++ program, you'll need the Lua headers to compile your program and a Lua library to link with it. If you're getting a ready-made Lua package for your platform, …

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Lua users typically fall into three broad groups: those that use Lua already embedded in an application program, those that use Lua stand alone, and those that use Lua and C together.

You may be wondering: If Lua is not a stand-alone program, how come we have been using Lua stand alone through the whole book? The solution to this puzzle is the Lua interpreter (the …

There are at least two reasons for that: First, Lua 5.0 is cleaner and more mature than earlier versions of the language (partially thanks to the book). Second, the book adds weight to the …

Lua has been designed from scratch to be extended, both through Lua code and through external C code. As a proof of concept, it implements most of its own basic functionality through …