Overview Lua offers lightweight scripting capabilities for games, applications, embedded systems and networking.Developers value Lua for simplicity, portability ...

Everyone has at least a few games on their computer, and I would assume most of the Hackaday readership would be among the enlightened PC gamer bretheren. At this year’s DEF CON, [Tamas Szakaly] gave ...

A close friend of mine went on a job interview recently, for a local game development company. I'm not going to name names here, but let's just say that they're a sorta-large Game Development boutique ...

A tutorial on integrating Lua as a simple scripting language into a Windows C++ RPG engine. Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data ...

The moment you think, 'I have to study,' your hands stop moving.You decide to start programming and open an introductory book or website.You can read the first few pages. However, as you progress a ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...