Reference Manual of the Lua programming language

Frequently Asked Questions about Lua

An overview of Lua.

Lua-users Wiki, collaborative site for Lua programmers; Lua-l archive, searchable body of official Lua mailing list; Lua-users.org mini charter.

Home site; lightweight, made to extend programs, often used for general-purpose, standalone use; simple procedural syntax, powerful data description constructs use associative arrays, extensible semantics; dynamically typed, bytecode interpreted, garbage collected; great for configuration, scripting, rapid prototyping. [Open Source]

A Lua extension library that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers within the Lua language.

A port of Lua 4.0 (plus a small IDE) for PalmOS handheld devices.

Andreas Rozek's Lua page: brief description, distributions, modules, examples, applications.

A debugger for Lua. [Free for pure academic, non profit use]

Tool to simplify integrating C/C++ code with Lua, automatically generates binding code to access C/C++ features from Lua; maps C/C++ constants, external variables, functions, classes, and methods to Lua, via Lua API and tag method facilities. [Freeware]