Lua is a small scripting language. It is a research team at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, composed of Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and developed in 1993. It is designed to be embedded in applications to provide them with flexible extensions and customization capabilities. Lua is written in standard C and can be compiled and run on almost all operating systems and platforms. Lua does not provide a powerful library, which is determined by its positioning. Therefore, Lua is not suitable as a language for developing stand-alone applications. Lua has a concurrent JIT project that provides just-in-time compilation capabilities on specific platforms.
Through the tutorials in this chapter, you can learn basic tutorials about Lua, including environment installation, basic syntax, functions, strings, etc. . And you can have an in-depth understanding of Lua's object-oriented, database, etc.
