Lua

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.

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lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a registerbased virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

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The Best 55 Lua Alternatives

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ooc

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Huginn

Huginn is a computer programming language with following traits: - interpreted - object oriented - static type system - strongly typed - dynamically typed - no...

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Terra (programming language)

Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by Lua.

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Alternatives in Lua for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Web, BSD, Cygwin, Mac, Solaris. This list contains a total of 55 applications similar to Lua.

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The Best 55 Lua Alternatives

Ejscript

Hy

X10 (programming language)

SMX

Quorum

Objective-J

Red (Programming Language)

AngelScript

Chibi Scheme

ChaiScript

Jim Tcl — The Jim Interpreter

ooc

TinyScheme

Huginn

Terra (programming language)

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