Lua.mdwn (688B)
1 [**Lua**](https://www.lua.org) is a general-purpose high-level language created since the 1990s at [PUC Rio de Janeiro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Catholic_University_of_Rio_de_Janeiro). 2 3 Lua provides a sweet spot along three axes: 4 5 * high-level dynamic syntax with anonymous functions and closures 6 * reasonably high performance by compiling to a virtual machine's bytecode 7 * small and approachable implementation with no dependencies beyond C 8 9 Lua also provides a framework for graphical applications called [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). LÖVE depends on the host OS for graphics. On Unix-descended systems, that is approximately the [SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org) library.