Lua Links

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Note that the links here are regarding Lua proper. Links to things for Lua, referred to LuaAddons, have their own listing. Likewise things using Lua are listed elsewhere [1].

There are two general types of links here. One is links to sites or pages dedicated to Lua. These are similar to what you would find listed in a web directory. If you are adding such a link to this page, please consider also submitting it to the Open Directory Project (ODP), which will ensure it gets added to the wide network of web directories. SteveDekorte?, a member of the Lua community, is editor of the ODP's Lua category [2].

The other type of link points to citations of Lua within a larger context, such as language comparisons and information directories.

Please don't list simple web search engines here.

• Official stuff
  • [Lua home page]
• Community
  • [Lua mailing list]
  • [Lua IRC channel] (#lua at irc.freenode.net)
  • [Lua Forge] -- big collection of nicely categorized Lua projects
  • [wiki of Jean-Claude Wippler].
• Lua Articles
  • [The Lua Architecture] - Describes Lua's business drivers, motivations, and architectural solutions.
• Lua objects/extension for other IDE's
  • [Lua Object for Multimedia Fusion 2 (ClickWiki)] (entry belongs on LuaAddons)
• Articles citing Lua
  • [A Conversation with Will Harvey]
• Lua Tutorials
  • [GameDev.net: An Introduction to Lua]
  • [Extending Lua]
  • [Embedding Lua]
  • [Compiling Lua with Pelles C for Win32]
  • [Introduction to Lua in BlitzMax]
  • [Embedding a scripting language inside your C/C++ code]
  • [Embedding a new programming language as a module] shows how simple it is to add Lua to the AOLServer HTTP server as a module.
  • [RiscLua tutorial]
• Benchmarks
  • [Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Language] is a paper by Kernighan and Van Wyk that benchmarks several scripting languages. An [implementation] of these benchmarks in Lua is available.
  • An updated version of Doug Bagley's original [Great Computer Language Shootout] is available. A [Windows version] is also available.
• Language comparisons
  • [Hello World!]
  • [Hello You]: [Lua entry].
  • [99 Bottles of Beer]: [Lua entry].
  • [ROT13]: [Lua entry]
  • [The Quine Page]
  • [OO Shape Examples]
  • [SICP Translation]
  • [APLC: Andreas' practical language comparison].
  • [Ruby, Io, PHP, Python, Lua, Java, Haskell, and Plain C Fractal Benchmark].
  • [Scriptometer]
  • [Syntax accross languages] (Big page!)
  • [Michael Neumann's big language comparison]
  • [Using Lua with C++: A short tutorial]
  • Pages where Lua is missing, we should contribute...
  • [PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook]
• Sites that mention Lua
  • [making image filters for Project Dogwaffle through DogLua ].
  • [Lua usenet citations], courtesy of [Google Groups].
  • [Dr. Dobb's list of scripting and alternative languages].Broken link
  • [Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters]: [Lua entry].
  • [Dictionary of Programming Languages]: [Lua entry].
  • [SAL, Scientific Applications on Linux]: [Lua entry]
  • [Freshmeat]: [Lua entry].
  • [FreeBSD]: [Lua-related ports]; [Using Lua - Guide for Porters].
  • [NetBSD]: [Lua entry].
  • [Mathtools.net]: [Lua entry].
  • [Wikipedia]: [Lua entry].
  • [Conectiva]: [Lua entry].
  • [Hypernews Computer Language List].
  • [The Language List - Version 2.4] (from 1995!).
  • [Review of existing Languages]: [Lua entry].
  • [Open Directory Project]: [Lua entry].
  • [GNU Free Software Directory]: [Lua entry].
  • [Scriptol's Popular Programming languages].