Lua in a Nutshell: A Quick Tutorial for Lua

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:10:34 +0000

I’m reading source code written with Torch these days. Torch is a well-known deep learning framework written in Lua.

So I summarize its grammar and provide a quick tutorial here.

Getting Started

Like many languages, Lua is case-sensitive.

The following code outputs “Hello World” with Lua. Note that the semicolon at the end of a line is optional, like JavaScript.

print('Hello World')

You can use the interpreter of Lua in the command line: