Some interesting facts

  • Awesome WM is mainly written in Lua and uses it as its configuration file format

  • Cheat Engine, memory editor/debugger uses Lua to be embedded in its "cheat tables"

  • Conky, a Linux system monitor, uses Lua for advanced graphics

  • CRYENGINE, game engine, uses Lua for user scripts

  • Garry's Mod uses Lua.

Example of "Hello World" code written in Lua compared to other programming languages

Lua

print("Hello World!")

JavaScript

"use strict"
console.log("Hello world!");

Haskell

module Main where

main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"

Python 3

print("Hello, world!")

Ruby

puts "Hello world!"
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