A close friend of mine went on a job interview recently, for a local game development company. I'm not going to name names here, but let's just say that they're a sorta-large Game Development boutique ...

Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data description facilities. It also offers good support for object-oriented programming, functional ...

At the age of 12, Alex Foyt is already a veteran of creating online games, boasting 98 titles in six years, including a survival challenge that involves dodging carrots and chickens falling from the ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

A new low-level programming language, Terra, has been designed to work with Lua to generate code for high performance computing. Lua is a lightweight embeddable scripting language that combines simple ...

BPF is, of course, the language used for network (and other) customization in the Linux kernel, but some people have been using the Lua language for the networking side of that equation. Two ...