Lua, a lightweight scripting language born in Brazil in 1993, overcame early obscurity to become a globally adopted tool for game development, embedded systems, and diverse applications, illustrating how a small team can solve a universal need and achieve worldwide success.
PHP, an open-source server-side scripting language introduced in 1994, has evolved through versions 1.0 to 8.0, offering simple syntax, cross-platform support, strong database integration, extensive libraries, and a vibrant community, making it a powerful and accessible tool for modern web development.
This article introduces AviatorScript, a lightweight high‑performance expression engine and scripting language for the JVM (including Android), outlines its core features, demonstrates basic expression evaluation, variable handling, built‑in and custom functions, and shows how to run full scripts with code examples.
This article introduces AviatorScript, a high‑performance, lightweight JVM‑based scripting language, covering its origins, key features, quick‑start setup, core syntax for numbers, strings, booleans, control flow, functions, and real‑world use cases such as client version control, marketing rules, and order risk management.
Lua is a lightweight, high-performance scripting language supporting multiple paradigms, widely used in game development, embedded systems, and web servers; this guide explains its core characteristics, typical applications, and provides step-by-step instructions for downloading, compiling, and configuring Lua on a Linux system.
The article walks readers through building a custom scripting language from scratch—explaining compilation basics, lexical scanning, parsing, bytecode generation, and virtual‑machine execution—using a sample language called eben to illustrate BNF syntax, variable scopes, control flow, functions, closures, object‑orientation, garbage collection, and the historical evolution of programming languages.
Vim9 Script, the new major version of Vim's scripting language, brings dramatic performance gains, modern syntax, and features like typed functions, module imports, and class‑like structures while maintaining compatibility with existing Vim scripts.
