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Lua is a small, embeddable scripting language designed in 1993 at PUC-Rio. It is famously lightweight (the interpreter is ~250KB), runs on virtually any platform, and is designed to be embedded inside larger applications.

print writes a value followed by a newline.

print("Hello, Lua!")

Lua is dynamically typed (variables don't have types, values do) and single-paradigm-flexible (you can write procedural, OO, or functional code with the same primitives).

No semicolons needed — newlines end statements. Comments use -- for single-line and --[[ ... ]] for blocks.