Lua in 100 Seconds

Lua is a lightweight dynamic scripting language often embedded into other programs like World of Warcraft and Roblox. It's minimal syntax makes it easier to learn than Python, while being much more performant than other interpreted languages.

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? Resources

Lua Manual https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html
Lua History https://www.researchgate.net/p....ublication/2486970_T
Lua C API https://riptutorial.com/lua/to....pic/671/introduction

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What is Lua?
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