Lua is a lightweight, cross-platform, high-level programming language that has become increasingly-popular as an embedded scripting language.
Lua is often praised as a clean, simple, easy to learn scripting language that is applicable to a wide range of tasks.
Today Lua can be found in a wide range of applications including Neovim.
There are several versions of Lua available, and in this chapter we focus on the version that ships with Neovim, Lua 5.1.
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