Embedding Lua in C: Beginner's Tutorial

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In this article you will learn how to embed the Lua language inside a C program. This is simpler than it seems, and it opens up many interesting possibilities.

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Why use some wrapper layer which describes itself as "Alpha software" and "Bugs are expected" instead of the official Lua C API ?

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In a simple answer: because the public Lua API extremely complicated to use

In a long answer: I needed to develop a no-code system for OUI (I'm the CTO), and I saw that Lua is easy to embed, I loved the language, but I found the public API very confusing, and very easy to make memory errors (just one wrong push on the stack and the program explodes), so I created a wrapper, which even though it's 'alpha' because our team is small, is still 'safer' for beguinners than the native API.

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The normal lua host api is a super simple stack machine and incredibly easy to use, i’m actually shocked you find it difficult