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Project Summary
Lua is a powerful, fast, light-weight, 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 register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
In a Nutshell, Lua...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
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took an estimated 9 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 1993
ending with its most recent commit 15 days ago
Quick Reference
https://github.com/lua/lua
MIT License
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