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- Arduino Programming in JavaScript
- Brain Controlled Robots
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- Jason: BerkeleyDB & JDBM3: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/berkeleydb/overview/index.html https://github.com/jankotek/JDBM3
- Patrick: Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Lua
History
- Originated in Brazil
Features
- Interpreted (compiled to bytecode on the fly)
- Dynamic typing
- Tables & Meta-Tables
Strengths
- Easy C / C++ Integration
- luabind: http://www.rasterbar.com/products/luabind.html
- Diluculum: http://www.stackedboxes.org/~lmb/diluculum/
- Execution speed
Weaknesses
- Everything based on tables & meta-tables (classes are possible, but clunky)
- Not as fully featured as python or ruby
- Lua Libraries: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LibrariesAndBindings
Uses
- Video Game Scripting (World of Warcraft)
- LightRoom UI
- Application Scripting