LuaRT extends Lua 5.4 -a language valued for its beginner-friendly syntax and simplicity- to create console and desktop applications on Windows. It includes runtime modules and tools to make development accessible for newcomers while supporting complex tasks with minimal effort.
Key Features
- Beginner-Friendly: Lua’s straightforward syntax makes Luart approachable for novices, while still enabling complex tasks—like crafting GUIs or handling web requests—with concise code.
- Lightweight Runtime: The LuaRT runtime is compact and self-contained, relying on no external libraries, ensuring minimal overhead and easy deployment.
- Object-Oriented Programming: LuaRT enhances Lua with robust OOP support, including multilevel inheritance, mixins, constructors, destructors, properties, and more, for structured and reusable code.
- Asynchronous Programming: LuaRT includes a Task object for asynchronous operations, supporting async/await/after paradigms to simplify non-blocking code (e.g., running tasks in the background or scheduling delayed actions).
- Batteries Included: LuaRT contains lots of modules to cover most of today’s programming tasks, such as: json data parsing, audio playing and recording, clipboard access, Windows registry management, process control, compression, sqlite for database operations, C FFI module to call C functions from your Lua scripts, and more ...
- Enhanced ui Module with Windows light/dark themes, HighDPI support, WebView2 widget for displaying web content, and interact with it from Lua, Hardware-accelerated Direct2D rendering with the Canvas widget.
- Bundled Development Tools: LuaRT Studio IDE, RTBuilder a RAD designer, and rtc, the Lua to executable compiler.
- Documentation: A thorough guide (over 1,000 pages) covers modules, examples, and tutorials,...
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- Beginner-Friendly: Lua’s straightforward syntax makes Luart approachable for novices, while still enabling complex tasks—like crafting GUIs or handling web requests—with concise code.
- Lightweight Runtime: The LuaRT runtime is compact and self-contained, relying on no external libraries, ensuring minimal overhead and easy deployment.
- Object-Oriented Programming: LuaRT enhances Lua with robust OOP support, including multilevel inheritance, mixins, constructors, destructors, properties, and more, for structured and reusable code.
- Asynchronous Programming: LuaRT includes a Task object for asynchronous operations, supporting async/await/after paradigms to simplify non-blocking code (e.g., running tasks in the background or scheduling delayed actions).
- Batteries Included: LuaRT contains lots of modules to cover most of today’s programming tasks, such as: json data parsing, audio playing and recording, clipboard access, Windows registry management, process control, compression, sqlite for database operations, C FFI module to call C functions from your Lua scripts, and more ...
- Enhanced ui Module with Windows light/dark themes, HighDPI support, WebView2 widget for displaying web content, and interact with it from Lua, Hardware-accelerated Direct2D rendering with the Canvas widget.
- Bundled Development Tools: LuaRT Studio IDE, RTBuilder a RAD designer, and rtc, the Lua to executable compiler.
- Documentation: A thorough guide (over 1,000 pages) covers modules, examples, and tutorials,...