How can the Number of Lua Users be Greater than the Population of Belgium?
One reason for Lua’s success is that it is used as part of the interface customization for World of Warcraft (WoW), and it’s an interesting fact that: • the current population of Belgium is 10, 403, 951 • the current population of World of WarCraft (WoW) is 11 million As well as World of Warcraft, Lua is used in (to name but a few): • Adobe Photo Lightshop • Apache • Baldur’s Gate • Damn Small Linux • Heroes of Might and Magic • MySQL • SciTE • Supreme Commander So, obviously Lua must be very complicated to use? Well, no, it’s not. And that is why Lua is so powerful – it can be used as easily in a small scale development in Windows as a complex application targeted for a Playstation or a GameCube. document.getElementById(‘adsense_placeholder_2’).innerHTML = document.getElementById(‘adsense_ad_2_hidden’).innerHTML; Installing Lua The Lua installation application can be downloaded directly from the a href=’http://www.lua.org’>Lua web site. It’s worth noting that Lua requires the Microsof
