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Lua is a scripting language that is commonly embedded within other applications. It is very portable. You can learn to program Lua with the free ebook on the official website, Programming in Lua, 1st Edition.
In Debian you can simply use the package manager:
sudo apt install lua5.3
Also search for other packages with apt-cache search lua
because there are a lot of libraries available like http, json, filesystem, curl, curses, databases and more.
If you want to build from source, it's very easy because it's so portable and written in ANSI C. Simply [[https://www.lua.org/download.html|download], extract and run make
.
wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.3.tar.gz tar zxf lua-5.4.3.tar.gz cd lua-5.4.3 make # sudo apt install build-essential src/lua -v src/luac -v sudo make install # Optional
There are a few ways you could execute the Hello World code.
- In the interactive REPL: lua
- By invoking the Lua interpreter and passing it a file: lua hello.lua
- By executing a script directly with a shebang (#!/usr/bin/lua
): ./hello
- Running a precompiled script (luac hello.lua
): lua luac.out
print 'hello world'