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== Features == | == Features == | ||
* Clean syntax | * Clean syntax | ||
* Simple yet extremely powerful and extensible | * Simple, yet extremely powerful and extensible, data structure: tables (can be used as hashtables, vectors, arrays, lists, namespaces, objects, ...) | ||
* Easily | * Easily embeddable into existing projects | ||
* Lightweight | * Lightweight | ||
* Very fast | * Very fast | ||
* | * Compiled to bytecode, which can be saved to a file | ||
* Easy integrated with all languages that can load C libraries (also [[FreePascal]] | * Easy integrated with all languages that can load C libraries (also [[FreePascal]] | ||
* Many other nifty things ;) | * Many other nifty things ;) | ||
Revision as of 22:17, 8 March 2006
Description
Lua is a very nice and easy to learn scripting language specifically designed to be embedable and able to represent complex data.
Features
- Clean syntax
- Simple, yet extremely powerful and extensible, data structure: tables (can be used as hashtables, vectors, arrays, lists, namespaces, objects, ...)
- Easily embeddable into existing projects
- Lightweight
- Very fast
- Compiled to bytecode, which can be saved to a file
- Easy integrated with all languages that can load C libraries (also FreePascal
- Many other nifty things ;)
Lua Roguelikes
Lua is probably the most popular scripting language for roguelikes. Some of the projects that use Lua:
- Angband - since 3.0.0 Angband supports Lua scripts.
- ToME - a good part of the engine is in Lua and the game itself will be completly in Lua in the next version.
- H-World - all modding in this engine is done through Lua scripts
- Carceri