Lua is a lightweight dynamic scripting language often embedded into other programs like World of Warcraft and Roblox. It's minimal syntax makes it easier to learn than Python, while being much more performant than other interpreted languages. 

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Lua Manual https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html
Lua History https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2486970_The_Evolution_of_an_Extension_Language_A_History_of_Lua
Lua C API https://riptutorial.com/lua/topic/671/introduction-to-lua-c-api

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