Lua

To create smart contracts for Aergo, you can use the Lua scripting language.

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 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
• Programming in Lua (The second edition was aimed at Lua 5.1)

Table of contents

• Hello World
  • Tutorial
• Programming Guide
  • Restrictions
  • Libraries
  • Smart Contract
  • SQL
  • Tools
  • Style conventions
• Reference
  • Overview
  • system package
  • contract package
  • Built-in Functions
  • DB package
  • json package
  • crypto package
  • bignum package
• Examples
  • Basic Contract Examples
  • ARC1 Fungible Tokens
  • ARC2 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)
  • Token Locker
• Fee delegation
  • Registering the functions
  • check_delegation function
  • Differing from normal calls
  • Transfering coins to the smart contract
  • Contract example
  • aergocli example
  • Receipt