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Unread 07-10-2012, 20:35
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Re: Team 973 Code Now Public

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Originally Posted by inkspell4 View Post
Would somebody please explain what luna is
Lua is a scripting language (http://www.lua.org/). It is used a lot in the gaming industry as a second-level language to interact with higher level APIs. For example, World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, and RIFT have all allowed users to create modifications to their user interface by writing Lua scripts against their exposed APIs.

I have never used Lua with FRC, but I am assuming the benefits are a faster change-upload-run cycle while developing code, because Lua is interpreted and not compiled.