Lua

Simple, Fast, Lightweight, Embeddable

First appeared: 1993Designed by: Roberto Ierusalimschy

A compact scripting language widely embedded in games, applications, and tools like Redis and Nginx.

Links

Multi-paradigmProcedural

print("Hello, World!")

Created by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes at PUC-Rio in 1993. LuaJIT (2009) provides exceptional performance.

Type system: Dynamic

Package Managers

LuaRocks

Frameworks

LÖVEOpenRestyMoonScript