lua@5.3 ☆

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Description:
Powerful, lightweight programming language

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Nov 25, 2024

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: programming-language scripting embedding lightweight lua

Install: brew install lua@5.3

About:
Lua 5.3 is a powerful, efficient, and embeddable scripting language. It is designed for performance, portability, and ease of integration into applications, making it a popular choice for game development, configuration, and extending software.

Key Features:

Lightweight and fast interpreter
Highly embeddable in C/C++ applications
Powerful but simple procedural syntax
Automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection
Dynamic typing and first-class functions

Use Cases:

Embedded scripting for games and applications (e.g., World of Warcraft, Redis)
Configuration and extension language for software
Rapid prototyping and general-purpose scripting

Alternatives:

python – More batteries-included, larger runtime; Lua is more lightweight and embeddable.
luajit – Just-In-Time compiler for Lua 5.1; offers higher performance but is based on an older language version.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 25, 2024 3:34pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	d33a5046
Sep 14, 2024 9:01pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	b0e760db