by Roberto Ierusalimschy (Author), Luiz Henrique De Figueiredo (Author), Waldemar Celes (Author)

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

This reference manual is 51 pages long.