{"id":8992,"date":"2020-06-20T02:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2020-06-20T02:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:17:07","slug":"lua-5-4-release-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/lua-5-4-release-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Lua 5.4 Release Available With new Garbage Collection Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lua 5.4 release has been announced for general availability and comes with new performance improvements and fixes. It also comes with a new Garbage Collection mode and warning system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lua is a mature scripting programming language that is particularly popular for <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/scripting\">scripting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/embedded\">embedding<\/a> within <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/gaming\">games<\/a> and other applications. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lua 5.4 is the first major release since Lua 5.3 shipped five years ago and comes with several feature updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes with new generational mode for garbage collection, support for to-be-closed variables, support for const variables, new <em>math.random<\/em> implementation, a new warning system, and a host of other changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out the full list of changes that have been introduced in the Lua 5.4 release from the official announcement page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lua.org\/manual\/5.4\/readme.html#changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. 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