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.

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Lua is a language that fits in this space. Dynamic ...

One of the SDKs mentioned in the programming languages guide is Corona, a third party SDK designed primarily for writing games. Instead of Java, Corona uses Lua, a fast scripting language that is ...

But they eventually looked farther afield, settling on Lua, a programming language developed by a trio of researchers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. How did a programming language from the global South ...

That's essential, because Lua includes both program and programming language in one tidy package -- meaning programs written in Lua will run reliably on machines as diverse as PCs and iPhones.