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Vim has Lua scripting support starting with version 7.3. [34] VLC media player uses Lua to provide scripting support. Warframe uses Lua for HUD purposes and several other UI operations; Waze uses Lua internally. waze-4-35-0-15.apk includes Lua 5.3.3. WeeChat IRC client allows scripts to be written in Lua.
Note: Lua patterns are not regular expressions in the traditional POSIX sense, and they are not even a subset of regular expressions. But they share many constructs with regular expressions (more below). Lua patterns are used to define, find and handle a pattern in a string. It can do the common search and replace action in a text, but it has ...
Notable games which use Lua include Roblox, [26] Garry's Mod, World of Warcraft, Payday 2, Phantasy Star Online 2, Dota 2, Crysis, [27] and many others. Some games that do not natively support Lua programming or scripting, have this function added by mods, as ComputerCraft does for Minecraft .
Scribunto Lua reference manual; Programming in Lua; Introduction to Lua patterns; About regex. Lua "patterns" are based on Regex (Patterns are a reduced set of regex). Help:Lua metamodules: Lua in Wikipedia has several meta-modules available that can make core functions easily available.
LuaRocks is a package manager for the Lua programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Lua modules (in a self-contained format called a "rock"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of rocks, and a server for distributing them. While not included with the Lua distribution, it has been called the "de facto ...
Help:Lua for beginners; Help:Lua debugging – about debugging Lua modules; Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency; Module:Sandbox provides a pseudo-namespace for experimenting with Lua modules
Also, all Lua in the page is limited to 10 seconds CPU time (you can look in the source code of a rendered page to see how long a template or module took to parse). And relative to standard Lua, Scribunto's Lua lacks all sorts of functions (see mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual § Differences from standard Lua).
This help-page, Help:Lua debugging, explains issues of writing Lua script and debugging the source code, to remove errors or improve performance. Because Lua is a "semi-compiled" interpreted language, it does not prescreen for all common syntax errors, nor detect misspelled variables, which are only found at runtime when seeing the " Script ...