PLNews: Programming Language News

Metalua 0.3 has been released. "Metalua is a compiler, backward-compatible with Lua 5.1, which supports compile-time meta-programming a.k.a. Lisp-style macros."

This release includes: compiler improvements, documentation updates, new samples, and more.

Lua 5.1.2 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Lua 5.1.2-rc5 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

Lua 5.1.2-rc4 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Lua 5.1.2-rc3 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

Lua 5.1.2-rc2 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

Lua 5.1.2-rc1 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This release includes bug fixes.

LuaJIT 1.1.2 has been released. It is a just-in-time compiler for Lua, supporting a number of x86 operating systems.

This release includes a couple of bugfixes.

Lua 5.1.1-rc4 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Lua 5.1.1-rc3 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

IBM developerWorks is running an article entitled 'Embeddable scripting with Lua', by Martin Streicher. It gives an introduction to Lua, a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

The article introduces the Lua language itself, and also discusses embedding the interpreter within a C program.

Lua 5.1 (final) has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

ONLamp.com is running an article entitled "Introducing Lua", by Keith Fieldhouse. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

The article gives a brief introduction to the goals of Lua and the implementation, and also lists some notable users. The basics of the language are covered, including a number of examples. There is also some discussion of embedding and extending Lua, as well as links to Lua-related resources that may be useful.

It has been announced that the Lua Workshop 2006 will be held on September 4 and 5, 2006, in Venlo, Netherlands.

Lua 5.1 rc4 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Lua 5.1 rc3 has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

Lua 5.1 (final,rc) has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This pre-release includes a revised and updated manual, makefile improvements, plus other changes and fixes.

Lua 5.1 (beta) has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

The changes in this release include: support for string.gsub accepting tables as the replacement, a new lua_setallocf function for changing the allocator function, new table.maxn and debug.getregistry functions, plus more.

LuaJIT 1.0.3 has been released. It is a just-in-time compiler for Lua 5.1, targetting x86 CPUs.

This is the initial public release of the JIT compiler.

Lua 5.1 (alpha) has been released. Lua is a dynamically-typed scripting language offering object-oriented capabilities, designed for extending applications.

This alpha release includes an updated reference manual. The final Lua 5.1 release is planned for the end of the year.