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Lua Alive

Lua
KindProgramming language
Appeared1993
StatusAlive
CreatorIerusalimschy, de Figueiredo & Celes / PUC-Rio
FamilyLua
Sourcewww.lua.org ↗

Brazil's 24-kilobyte gift to game engines — tables for everything, embeddable anywhere; World of Warcraft and Redis run on it.

Created by Waldemar Celes Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo Roberto Ierusalimschy
Descendants Luau
Influenced Julia

Puc-Rio's Lua (1993) — 'moon' — was designed to be embedded: a tiny, fast, portable scripting language where the table does everything.\n\nIt became the game industry's scripting standard (World of Warcraft, Roblox), Redis's extension language, and the canonical embeddable — proof a language can succeed by staying small.

Sources

  1. lua.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)