Lua Hello World

Lua is a powerful and lightweight scripting language commonly used in game development, web development, and embedded systems. In this tutorial, we will learn how to write a basic "Hello World" program in Lua.

Getting Started

Before we start writing Lua code, we need to install the Lua interpreter. You can download and install the latest version from the official Lua website: https://www.lua.org/download.html.

Once installation is complete, open a command prompt and type lua to start the Lua interpreter. You should see a prompt that looks like >. This is where we will write our code.

Writing the Program

Now that we have our environment set up, let's write the "Hello World" program. In Lua, we can use the print function to output text to the console.

print("Hello, World!")

Save this code in a file with a .lua extension (e.g. hello.lua) and run it from the command line with the command lua hello.lua. You should see the output Hello, World! in your console.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You've written your first Lua program. In this tutorial, we covered how to install the Lua interpreter, write a basic "Hello World" program, and run it from the command line. Lua has a lot of powerful capabilities, and we encourage you to continue exploring the language and its possibilities. Happy coding!