Why Lua?

• "Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications."
• Super fast to setup an interpreter
• It's been around a while, even if you haven't heard of it: since 1993

Who uses Lua?

• Blizzard- World of Warcraft
• Adobe - Lightroom
• Swoop Software - Kitty Spangles Solitaire - http://www.swoopsoftware.com/
• Lots of game companies
• Lesser  known desktop wikis'

Some Features:

• Dynamically typed
• Compiles to bytecode and runs in a register based vm
• Garbage collection
• Written in ANSI C, compiles everywhere.
• Very small library

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