lglicua
Developer Assistant for PUC-Rio Tecgraf sci/tech toolkits on GNU/Linux
... comes out of PUC-Rio, and is a small, portable, fast, powerful, readable, flexible and free scripting/extension language. See:
<https://www.lua.org/about.html>.
This Assistant helps with installation (needs sudo), and non-sudo day-to-day project activities such as SVN updates and project patch/edit/build/run. The "hello, world" dialog box Bash/Lua script is two lines:
#!/bin/bash ../support/play-lua-tec
iup=require("iuplua"); iup.Message("MyApp", "hello, world")