Learn Lua online

Lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application. Lua is designed to be a lightweight embeddable scripting language. It is used for all sorts of applications, from games to web applications and image processing.

Lua is a very, very small language. If you already have programming experience it should take you a few days to learn about all language features, including the (very limited) standard library . After that, if you intend to embed Lua in a C project, it takes about a week to get comfortable with the C API.

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Roblox uses Lua and learning the basics of Lua can take anything from a few days to a few weeks , depending on the time you put into it. The more you practice, the faster you will learn. To get started and to become effective in Lua programming, there are some basics you should learn and know.