Links
Standard Lua
- https://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html Online book “Programming in Lua”, based on version 5.0.
- https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/ Reference manual, version 5.1.
- https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/ Reference manual, latest version 5.5. Remember that Luau diverged from Lua in version 5.1 and some of the new features are not there (and neither in SLua).
- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/index.htm Tutorial.
- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_lua_online.php Online editor and compiler.
- https://onecompiler.com/lua/ Online editor and compiler.
- https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sumneko.lua Extension for Visual Studio Code.
Luau
- https://luau.org/getting-started Reference page, the language without the Roblox libraries (which are equivalent to the LL functions in LSL).
- https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/fundamentals/coding-1/coding-fundamentals Tutorials, including and oriented to the Roblox libraries.
- https://create.roblox.com/docs/studio/setting-up-roblox-studio#installing-studio Installation of Roblox Studio, with editor, compiler and debugger.
- https://github.com/luau-lang/luau Luau source code
- https://play.luau.org Luau Playground, to write and test scripts online.
SLua / Luau
- https://luau.org/library SLua / Luau libraries
- https://create.roblox.com/docs/luau/metatables SLua / Luau metamethods
- https://roblox.github.io/lua-style-guide Luau style guide
SLua
- https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer.html Page to download the “Second Life Project Lua Editor” viewer.
- https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/actions/runs/21525310258 Page to download SL Project Lua last version 2026.1.0.21294391848, pending of QA.
- https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/373-slua SLua forum in the Second Life Community forums
- https://feedback.secondlife.com/slua-alpha General discussion and feedback on SLua, to post issues and suggestions.
- https://discord.com/channels/677442248157167619/1348710493656977488 SecondLife discord, channel scripting-lua.
- https://github.com/secondlife/slua SLua source code.
- https://slua-playground.wlf.io Slua Playground, to write and test scripts online.
- https://modemworld.me/ Inara Pey’s blog, summary of SUG meetings with (sometimes) news about Lua, among a variety of posts.
- https://www.youtube.com/@PanteraPolnocy/videos Pantera Północy’s channel, videos of SUG meetings, and others.
SLua - Visual Studio Code extension
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUqf6adO28 WolfGang Senizen’s tutorial to install the SL VSCode Plugin.
- https://github.com/secondlife/sl-vscode-plugin/releases Page to download the SL VSCode Plugin, in development.
- https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/luau-lsp Luau-lsp by JohnnyMorganz, Luau VS Code extension (used with the SLua extension).
- https://github.com/Kampfkarren/selene Selene by Kampfkarren, Lua linter (used with the SLua extension).