Why Learn Lua?

Lua is a small but general programming language, that is good for both novices and experienced programmers for the following reasons:

• It is small, both in terms of concepts the programmer must know as well as the size of its own source code, object code size, and memory footprint when executing.
• It is fast. Lua is fast for an interpreted language.
• It is portable. Lua is available on Windows, Linux, Unix, OS X, and mobile platforms as well as other less common platforms, because Lua itself is written in ANSI C.
• Lua is embeddable. Lua is designed to be embedded inside other applications, especially those written in C or C++. For this reason is the extension language of a number of games and applications.
• Lua is free. Lua is open source and distributed under the MIT license which is allows for both personal and commercial use.