• “Lua” is Portuguese for “moon.” It was invented in 1993 in Brazil, and is intended for embedded use in larger applications. Since its invention, it has become very popular in the video game industry.
  • It is a flexible, lightweight scripting language focused around “tables,” which are similar to dictionaries in Python and objects in JavaScript.
  • Lua is excellent for storing data as well as code (it benefits from a data-driven design).

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