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Re:A History of Lua (2001) by otikik on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:25AM (#32409856)
> lack of any types gets very cumbersome

You might be interested in Teal ("the typescript for Lua") https://github.com/teal-language/tl

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Re:A History of Lua (2001) by emehex on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:45AM (#32409969)
I find in super frustrating when a language doesn’t put a representative view of it’s syntax front and center in the README… (as a QuickStart or something)!
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Re:A History of Lua (2001) by nequo on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:22AM (#32410189)
The tutorial they link in the intro is quite good:

https://github.com/teal-language/tl/blob/master/docs/tutoria...

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Re:A History of Lua (2001) by emehex on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @07:48AM (#32410387)
Agreed! I just find it unusual that this isn’t “front and center” (as I said)
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Re:A History of Lua (2001) by otikik on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:08PM (#32416159)
The nice thing about this particular case is that you can actually do something to fix this problem that is super frustrating for you!

You can send a PR!

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