Everything about Lua

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: LuaA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Finding Taint-Style Vulnerabilities in Lua Application of IoT Firmware with Progressive Static AnalysisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Coding and Scripting in Roblox StudioThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Lua—An Extensible Extension LanguageCited 140 times
5. Go sideways: Comparison of programming languages (array)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Variadic functionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Lua—An Extensible Extension Language

  Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes Filho · 1996 · Software: Practice and Experience · 140 citations

• Organization of the Human LU Gene and Molecular Basis of the Lua/Lub Blood Group Polymorphism

  Wassim El Nemer, Cecile Rahuel, Yves Colin · 1997 · Blood · 66 citations

• Use of Domain-Deletion Mutants to Locate Lutheran Blood Group Antigens to Each of the Five Immunoglobulin Superfamily Domains of the Lutheran Glycoprotein: Elucidation of the Molecular Basis of the Lua/Lub and the Aua/Aub Polymorphisms

  S.F. Parsons, G. Mallinson, G.L. Daniels · 1997 · Blood · 56 citations

• The Lutheran Blood Groups: A Second Example of Anti-Lub and Three Further Examples of Anti-Lua

  TIBOR J. GREENWALT, THOMAS SASAKI · 1957 · Blood · 24 citations

• Analytical potential energy functions and theoretical spectroscopic constants for MX/MX− (MGe, Sn, Pb; XO, S, Se, Te, Po) and LuA (AH, F) systems: Density functional theory calculations

  Abraham F. Jalbout, Xin‐Hua Li, Hakima Abou‐Rachid · 2006 · International Journal of Quantum Chemistry · 23 citations

• Soil Moisture Mapping in an Arid Area Using a Land Unit Area (LUA) Sampling Approach and Geostatistical Interpolation Techniques

  Saeid Gharechelou, Ryutaro Tateishi, Ram Sharma · 2016 · ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · 21 citations

• Rockfall hazard and risk analysis for Monte da Lua, Sintra, Portugal

  José António de Almeida, José Carlos Kullberg · 2010 · Natural Hazards · 18 citations

• Sangue de Lua: reflexôes sobre espíritos e eclipses

  Carlos Fausto · 2012 · Journal de la société des américanistes · 10 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Finding Taint-Style Vulnerabilities in Lua Application of IoT Firmware with Progressive Static Analysis

  Xixing Li, Qiang Wei, Zehui Wu · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 7 citations

• Interactions of structural disaster management in landslide prevention: A qualitative study through the multi-level perspective (MLP) and figurational sociology from the lessons of the Lua ethnic community in Thailand

  Annop Yiengthaisong, Peson Chobphon, Thongphon Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn · 2025 · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 6 citations

• Reverse Engineering of Obfuscated Lua Bytecode via Interpreter Semantics Testing

  Chenke Luo, Jiang Ming, Jianming Fu · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 5 citations

• Craters and Lunar Lua (Pits/Skylights) in Mare Tranquillitatis and Marius Hills Reveal Variations in Protolith Properties

  E. S. Costello, C. L. Acohido, M. A. Chertok · 2026 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets · 4 citations

• SERS‐AI‐LUA‐Driven Salivary Diagnosis of Head and Neck Cancer Using Graphene‐Assisted Plasmonic Nanocorals

  Hyo Jeong Seo, Boyou Heo, Jun‐Yeong Yang · 2025 · Advanced Science · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Coding and Scripting in Roblox StudioJosh Gregory · 2020
• Programming In LuaRoberto Ierusalimschy · 2003
• Beginning Lua programmingKurt Jung, Aaron Brown undifferentiated · 2007
• Learning Game AI Programming with LuaYoung, David · 2014
• Learn Corona Sdk Game DevelopmentFrank Zammetti · 2013
• Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-onsPaul Emmerich · 2009
• 📕Luas - Dublin LRTCoras Iompair Eireann. Light Rail Project Office. · 1997
• 📕Dublin light railCoras Iompair Eireann. Light Rail Project Office. · 1998

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