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| - | There are 2 "branches:" of Lua now for ESP8266, and both are now open source. Confusingly, both use the word Node in their name - NodeLua and NodeMcu! | + | There is one version Lua for the ESP8266 (and ESP32), that is still under active development and maintenance: [[https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware|NodeMCU Lua Firmware on GitHub]] with its online documentation set available [[https://nodemcu.readthedocs.io/en/dev/|here]]. |
| - | As [[http://lua.org|lua.org]] says, Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. | + | After initial closed source development by the [[NodeMCU]] hardware developers, they released the software project to open-source in October 2014, and soon after invited a core group of community contributors to take over the software project. This team has made some 1,800 material commits to the software base in the 3 years since the projects move to GitHub, with some 60 hardware and software modules now supported. For further details see the online documentation. |
| - | * Lua is small: the Lua interpreter easily fits in under 100 kilobytes including the base libraries. | + | A second version of Lua know as [[NodeLua]] stopped development in December 2014, soon after NodeMCU Lua was open-sourced, and is now moribund, as it does not work with any of version 1.x or 2.x releases of the Espressif non-OS SDK. |
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| - | * Lua is fast: independent benchmarks show that Lua is often amongst the fastest interpreted dynamic languages. The Lua interpreter has been extensively tuned for high performance. | + | |
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| - | ==== NodeLua ==== | + | |
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| - | * [[NodeLua]] - A open source firmware runs Lua code on ESP8266, written by Harold L. | + | |
| - | * [[NodeLua WebIDE]] - A pure web-based tool works with [[NodeLua]] for Lua programming and run codes on ESP8266 over-the-air. | + | |
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| - | ==== NodeMCU ==== | + | |
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| - | * [[NodeMCU]] - Initially it is a close source firmware, now it is an open-source firmware and development kit that helps you to prototype your IOT product within a few Lua script lines. It is under active development by esp8266 open source community. | + | |
lua.txt · Last modified: 2017/06/27 01:18 by terrye