How Lua calls C functions through its stack-based API and how to package those functions as a module.

A practical overview of the Lua C API, including the stack, errors, calls, and memory allocation.

Registering and removing a keyboard event listener in a Cocos2d-x 3.17 Lua project.

Using Lua coroutines to coordinate asynchronous work without confusing cooperation with parallel execution.

Inspecting functions, locals, upvalues, coroutines, and execution with Lua's debug library.

Coroutine states, resume and yield values, iterators, and event-driven program structure in Lua.

Weak tables, caches, finalizers, and practical control of Lua's garbage collector.

How _G, _ENV, dynamic globals, module environments, and explicit load environments work in Lua.

An unbiased Fisher-Yates shuffle for Lua arrays, with in-place and copied variants.

Implementing objects, classes, inheritance, privacy, and callable objects with Lua tables and metatables.