The idea behind Lua is a beautiful one. A simple and concise syntax offers almost all of the niceties of a first-class language. Moreover, a naive implementation of an interpreter with a giant switch ...

This month’s edition saw programming language Lua move up from 38 to 20. The release of March’s TIOBE Index of the most popular programming languages saw a few notable changes across the board, ...

It began as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. And now it's also the encyclopedia anyone can program. "We wanted to provide editors with a real programming language," says Rob Lanphier, the director of ...

If your friends and family know you as Johnny Black-thumb, you might not be the best person to grow plants. They aren’t the easiest things to keep alive, after all — but the Lua Smart Planter might be ...