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Lua — programming languages family

2 programming languages in the lua family.

Decade1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

FamilyC 29 Independent 24 ML 14 ALGOL 11 BASIC 9 Esoteric 9 Lisp 8 shell 7 Pascal 6 Forth 4 APL 3 Erlang 3 Prolog 3 Python 3

StatusAlive Maintenance Dormant Dead Lost Superseded

Name	Years	Status	Family	Creator / origin
Lua	1993–	Alive	Lua	Ierusalimschy, de Figueiredo & Celes / PUC-Rio
Luau	2006–	Alive	Lua	Roblox