Although their syntaxes differ, Lua and Javascript are functionally very similar. Lua is like Javascript without the burden of maintenance-by-committee. Lua i

Although their syntaxes differ, Lua and Javascript are functionally very similar. Lua is like Javascript without the burden of maintenance-by-committee. Lua is very small, very portable, very easy to embed and extend in C/C++ based apps and is one of the fastest interpreted languages available. These features taken together are why Lua is the industry standard for runtime scripting in games. You should be aware, however, that unlike Ruby or Python, Lua's standard library is intentionally minimal and available add-on libraries are relatively sparse. The intention is that you are not inheriting a fat body of functionality when you adopt Lua. Instead you are starting with a slick, flexible core and customizing it into exactly what your app needs.