Lua
===

To create smart contracts for Aergo, you can use the `Lua scripting language <http://www.lua.org/about.html>`_.

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
It has a simple procedural syntax with a powerful data description structure.
Lua supports a variety of programming methods: procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming.

We use `LuaJIT 2.1.0 <http://luajit.org/luajit.html>`_ as the VM. LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language.

You can learn the Lua programming language through the following documents:

* `Lua 5.1 Reference Manual <http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/>`_
* `Programming in Lua <http://www.lua.org/pil/>`_ (The second edition was aimed at Lua 5.1)

**Table of contents**

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   hello-world
   guide
   reference
   examples
   using-fee-delegation