--- title: Terra | daily.dev description: Terra is a low-level system programming language embedded in and meta-programmed by Lua. It is designed to be meta-programmed from Lua and can be used as an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/terra-jmhp2mx4p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Terra | daily.dev og:description: Terra is a low-level system programming language embedded in and meta-programmed by Lua. It is designed to be meta-programmed from Lua and can be used as an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/terra-jmhp2mx4p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jmHp2mx4p.png og:image:alt: Terra og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Terra **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 13 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Terra is a low-level system programming language embedded in and meta-programmed by Lua. It is designed to be meta-programmed from Lua and can be used as an embedded JIT-compiler for building languages, a scripting-language with high-performance extensions, or a stand-alone low-level language. Terra entities are first-class Lua values, allowing for programmatically generated Terra code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#lua](https://daily.dev/tags/lua) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/terra-jmhp2mx4p) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Terra","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/terra-jmhp2mx4p","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/terra-jmhp2mx4p"},"datePublished":"2024-04-26T14:40:43.944Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:27:15.675Z","description":"Terra is a low-level system programming language embedded in and meta-programmed by Lua. It is designed to be meta-programmed from Lua and can be used as an...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/90332afc58a8d5c3bc41b398bd64bb52?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/90332afc58a8d5c3bc41b398bd64bb52?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Community Picks","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1655817725/logos/community","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/terra-jmhp2mx4p","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"lua","timeRequired":"PT13M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Terra"}]} ```