Lua

E95187

embeddable scripting language programming language scripting language

Lua is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language widely used for game development, configuration, and extending applications.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Lua canonical	15
Lua (through prototype ideas)	1
Lua (via LuaJIT experimental backends)	1
LuaTeX	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	embeddable scripting language ⓘ programming language ⓘ scripting language ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Brazil ⓘ
designedBy	Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo ⓘ Roberto Ierusalimschy ⓘ Waldemar Celes ⓘ
designGoal	efficiency ⓘ extensibility ⓘ portability ⓘ small footprint ⓘ
developer	PUC-Rio ⓘ Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro ⓘ
fileExtension	.lua ⓘ
hasFeature	automatic memory management ⓘ coroutines ⓘ first-class functions ⓘ garbage collection ⓘ metatables ⓘ tables as primary data structure ⓘ tail call optimization ⓘ
implementationLanguage	C ⓘ
inception	1993 ⓘ
influenced	Garry's Mod Lua ⓘ LuaJIT ⓘ Moonscript ⓘ Tarantool Lua ⓘ
influencedBy	DEL ⓘ Modula ⓘ SNOBOL ⓘ Sol ⓘ surface form: SOL Scheme ⓘ
license	MIT License ⓘ
paradigm	functional programming language ⓘ imperative programming language ⓘ procedural programming language ⓘ prototype-based programming language ⓘ
standardImplementation	Puc-Rio Lua ⓘ
supports	embedding in C and C++ applications ⓘ
typingDiscipline	duck typing ⓘ dynamic typing ⓘ
useCase	application scripting ⓘ configuration ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ game development ⓘ server-side scripting ⓘ
usedIn	Garry's Mod ⓘ nginx ⓘ surface form: Nginx (via OpenResty) Redis ⓘ surface form: Redis scripting Roblox (via a dialect, Luau) ⓘ Wireshark dissectors ⓘ World of Warcraft ⓘ surface form: World of Warcraft addons
website	https://www.lua.org/ ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Codex → supportsLanguage → Lua ⓘ

Julia → influencedBy → Lua ⓘ

Scheme → influenced → Lua ⓘ

OpenWrt → programmingLanguage → Lua ⓘ

LLVM → supportsLanguageFrontend → Lua ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lua (via LuaJIT experimental backends)

TeX typesetting system → influenced → Lua ⓘ

subject surface form: TeX

this entity surface form: LuaTeX

Smalltalk → influenced → Lua ⓘ

Self → influenced → Lua ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lua (through prototype ideas)

Neovim → programmingLanguage → Lua ⓘ

Neovim → supportsScriptingLanguage → Lua ⓘ

Nmap → programmingLanguage → Lua ⓘ

Nmap → writtenIn → Lua ⓘ

libsodium → supportsLanguageBinding → Lua ⓘ

SILE → hasProgrammingLanguage → Lua ⓘ

SILE → hasConfigurationFormat → Lua ⓘ

SILE → supportsExtensionLanguage → Lua ⓘ

LuaTeX → embeds → Lua ⓘ

LuaTeX → programmingLanguage → Lua ⓘ