Lua :: Atlas · Jeremy Boles

Lua

A flexible programming language that can be embedded into other applications.

Lua was created in the early 1990s at PUC Rio de Janeiro. Its main focus is letting applications be configured and extended, so it has a flexible C API that opens an application up to a full programming language. A few notable projects that embed it are Awesome, Löve, and Neovim.

There are multiple implementations, mostly centered on the 5.1 and 5.2 releases. Among the languages I tend to use, there’s luerl for Erlang, piccolo for Rust, and GopherLua for Go, alongside the original C API.

About Jeremy, in Fifteen Seconds

Hello there! I’m Jeremy Boles (me@jeremyboles.com) and I’ve been a computer programmer for over twenty-five years now and also a father for fourteen. These days I’m building a suite of focused apps—starting with Napkin, a notepad calculator that reads like you write. I currently live in one of the many cities within the United States called Springfield—mine’s in Southwest Missouri. My interests are legion and include travel, cooking, tinkering with computers, music, walks in the woods, writing, old video games, and hanging out with my two kids. I’m all lost in the supermarket, one could say.