How to use the Lua REPL In Linux
We can quickly get a view of Lua by using the repl and writing the basic program to understand the syntax of the Lua programming language.
We can use the print function to print text to the console.
print("Hello, Geeks!")
This function takes in a string “”, and returns the text to the console, we can also perform quick mathematical and logical operations inside the REPL.
So, this is how we can use REPL to use simple and general operations. For further reading, you can view the Lua documentation.
How to Install and Setup Lua in Linux
Lua is a programming language that is used for scripting, embedded applications, as well as for quite other technologies including plugins and text editors. Lua is a lightweight and open-source programming language it has been used in game development engines like Love 2D cocos2D, text editors like Neovim, desktop applications like MySQL workbench, WireShark, etc. It is quite easy to learn and start with Lua, so in this article, we will install Lua on a Linux machine.
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