Getting started with Lua (Part 1)

Learn ‘lua’ in an easy intuitive way ( Part 1 — Platforms )

What is the series about ?

This is Part 1 of the series where we try to learn lua in the most intuitive way. All the articles in this series is a short read ( 3 minutes ), so we will have many follow up parts to this . Stay along .. we have an interesting journey ahead !

Lua is fun

What is Lua ?

Lua is a lightweight embedded scripting language — which can be run on your IoT devices, used to write games for mobile and even support scripting on the applications running on your PC.

Is Lua used in real life ??

Yes, you might have not realized , but some of the mainstream applications use and support Lua .

• roblox supports writing your code in Lua . Check out in case you are familiar with roblox .
• Tons of games including War of Warcrafts and AngryBirds were written in Lua
• enable scripting on apps on PC like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom , VLC media player
• some popular gaming graphics engine support lua ( love2d is a pretty popular one in the 2d graphics/gaming community)