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If this piques your interest, the best way to learn Lua is probably Ierusalimschy's _Programming in Lua, 2nd ed._ (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/ http
by silentbicycle 16y ago
If this piques your interest, the best way to learn Lua is probably Ierusalimschy's _Programming in Lua, 2nd ed._ (http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/ http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/pil2/). That starts from square one and gets to advanced Lua programming, the C API, etc. in just over 300 pages.
The first edition is free online (http://www.lua.org/pil/ http://www.lua.org/pil/); the language changed somewhat between the two, but it gives a reasonable impression.
There's also a lot of content at http://lua-users.org/ http://lua-users.org/, including the wiki and mailing list archives.
LuaRocks (http://luarocks.org/ http://luarocks.org/) is a central library collection (such as CPAN, ruby gems, etc.), though not everybody uses it. For people on Windows, "Lua for Windows" (http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/ http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/) is a pretty good batteries-included distribution.