{"id":4486,"date":"2012-06-04T18:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2012-06-04T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T23:07:12","slug":"lua-is-a-proven-robust-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"Lua is a proven, robust language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lua has been used in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Lua-scriptable_software\">many industrial applications<\/a> (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/since1968.com\/article\/190\/mark-hamburg-interview-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-part-2-of-2\">Adobe&#8217;s Photoshop Lightroom<\/a>), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginga.org.br\/\">Ginga<\/a> middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Lua-scripted_video_games\">games<\/a> (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowwiki.com\/Lua\">World of Warcraft<\/a>). Lua is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satori.org\/2009\/03\/the-engine-survey-general-results\/\">the leading scripting language in games<\/a>. Lua has a solid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lua.org\/manual\/5.2\/\">reference manual<\/a> and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lua.org\/docs.html#books\">several books about it<\/a>. Several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lua.org\/versions.html\">versions<\/a> of Lua have been released and used in <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/marbux\/home\/where-lua-is-used\">real applications<\/a> since its creation in 1993. Lua featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/research.ihost.com\/hopl\/HOPL-III.html\">HOPL III, the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference<\/a>, in June 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lua.org\/about.html\">Lua: about<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lua has been used in many industrial applications (e.g., Adobe&#8217;s Photoshop Lightroom), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the Ginga middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and games (e.g., World of Warcraft). Lua is currently the leading scripting language &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[176,660],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-embedded-systems","tag-lua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}