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Lua Advanced

Beyond Lua Intermediate. Closures and upvalues deep, weak tables, sandboxing, FFI patterns, the C API mental model. The features behind embedding Lua into Redis, Roblox, Neovim.

advanced7 lessons3 chapters7 graded exercisesLua

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What you’ll be able to do

Chapter by chapter. Every lesson ends in a graded exercise.

  • Closures and Tables
  • Sandboxing and Embedding
  • GC, JIT, and the C Bridge
Taught in Lua, graded on a real executor.

Curriculum

3 chapters, 7 lessons. Each lesson is a short read and a graded exercise.

  1. 1Closures and UpvaluesRead · exercise
  2. 2Weak Tables and CachesRead · exercise