I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Lua is a language that fits in this space. Dynamic ...

The most popular category on the Google Play Store has always been Games. Although we all probably use key productivity apps like a web browser, an email client, and an instant messaging app, gaming ...

Why would super-secret spy software be written in a video game language? As security researchers continue to unpack the digital mystery that is the Flame virus, that's just one question looming over ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.