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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

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 ...

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, ...

What is the difference between scripting and programming languages? Scripting languages are often compared with programming languages as though they're opposite sides of the same coin. However, ...