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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Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and...

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ChaiScript

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Jim Tcl — The Jim Interpreter

Jim is an opensource small-footprint implementation of the Tcl programming language. It implements a large subset of Tcl and adds new features like references with...

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Alternatives in Lua for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, BSD, Haiku, AmigaOS, S60, AROS, PHP, Web, FreeBSD. This list contains a total of 16 applications similar to Lua.

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