Why Lua is fast?
Why Lua is fast? Lua is a fast language engine with small footprint that you can embed easily into your application. Lua has a simple and well documented API that allows strong integration with code written in other languages. It is easy to extend Lua with libraries written in other languages.
How do you say hello world in Lua?
print(“Hello World!”) How it works? It’s simple! Lua executes print() function and uses “Hello World” string as argument.
What Lua stands for?
The programming language is named Lua, it is officially not a acronym. Lua is a common word meaning Moon in Portuguese. The language is named like this because a previous programming language at PUC (in early development phase) was already named SOL for Simple Object Language.
Is Lua hard to learn?
Welcome! Lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application. Lua is designed to be a lightweight embeddable scripting language. It is used for all sorts of applications, from games to web applications and image processing.