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What can I use to program Lua script on Mac OS X? I'm looking for something that I can use to compile/interpret Lua script on OS X.
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If you use Linux or Mac OS X, Lua is either already installed on your system or there is a Lua package for it. Make sure you get the latest release of Lua (currently 5.4. 4). Lua is also quite easy to build from source, as explained below.
lua file and automatically runs it on Notepad++ startup. You can easily edit this file via Plugins > LuaScript > Edit Startup Script . You can include any commands you want to immediately execute on program startup, as well as register any additional shortcuts or callbacks.
Lua is easier than the Python language but Python is popular and demanding language than the Lua language for beginners. Python is a scripting language but it is heavy and slower than the Lua language but Lua is a light-weight, portable, and rapid execution language.
My preferred way:
brew install lua
Thanks, Max!
And if you need to know how to install Homebrew, see Link and:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
The Lua source easily compiles with no changes on the mac. It will build lua (the interpreter which can act on a source script, a pre-compiled script or interactively) and luac which can be used to pre-compile source scripts.
From the lua.org website: http://luabinaries.luaforge.net/download.html. The ones you want are the darwin binaries (they say Mac OS X in the description).
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