Learning Lua: A Quick Background and Getting Started with Lua Scripting Tools

Learn to program in Lua. Lua is a popular scripting language that is widely used by many apps and game engines including Defold, Cocos2Dx, Minetest, NeoVIMRoblox, Manticore, Solar2D, Amazon Lumberyard, WoW, Adobe Lightroom, and many other great tools. In this series, Dr. Brian Burton walks through the basics of using Lua. In Part 1, we will briefly cover Lua’s background, setup, and a Hello World. You can see the blog version here: See More of Dr. Burton’s tutorials and textbooks at or Or see our life advice/coaching at Talky Beat by Twin Musicom used in the outro and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (). Source: Artist: