Lua

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. (by LuaDist)

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LuaDist/lua is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of Lua is C.


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