# Lua support

Lua-specific features and guidance
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> Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Language Info for Lua

- Since PMD 6.17.0
- Implementation: `LuaLanguageModule`
- Id: lua
- PMD: ❌
- CPD: ✔️

CPD support was added with PMD 6.17.0. Since PMD 6.50.0 support for Luau, a gradually typed language derived from Lua, was added.

Tags: languages CpdCapableLanguage