Lua Programming/Features

Features of Lua

The features of the lua programming language include:

• simple
• efficient
• portable
• extensible
• adaptable to a broad range of applications
• Lua is an extension programming language
• Suitable for use as an embedded language within a host application
• Cross Platform Support
• Implemented in ANSI C
• Lightweight core occupies just 60k and executable footprint of just 140k
• Easy to use conventional scripting language
• Dynamic datatypes
• Powerful builtin support for text processing
• Interpreted bytecode compilation for fast and efficient execution
• Stack based virtual machine model
• Support for procedural, object oriented, functional and datadriven programming
• Supports coercion
• freeform syntax
• lettercase sensitive
• keywords