Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. the language engine is accessible as a library, having a c api which allows the application to exchange data with lua programs and also to extend lua with c functions. lua is also used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language through the simple command line interpreter provided.

this package contains developer resources for using the lua library. install it if you are developing programs which use the lua c api.

this package also contains the official manual covering the lua language and c api.