repo "https://github.com/tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-lua"
commit "d76023017f7485eae629cb60d406c7a1ca0f40c9"
license "MIT"
grammar {
id "lua"
name "Lua"
tag "code"
tier 1
has-scanner #true
icon "devicon-plain:lua"
inventor "Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo"
year 1993
description "Lightweight embeddable scripting language from PUC-Rio; [official reference manual](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/)."
link "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)"
trivia "Lua (meaning 'moon' in Portuguese) succeeded SOL ('sun'); see the [history page](https://www.lua.org/history.html) and the 1993 technical report introducing Lua."
sample {
path "samples/utf8.lua"
description "Lua UTF-8 test exercising pattern matching, loops, and standard library calls."
link "https://github.com/lua/lua/blob/master/testes/utf8.lua"
license "MIT"
}
}