Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)

Re:Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021) by pull_my_finger on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:22PM (#33024070)

Odd to suggest that if they're interested in Lua, that they should check out Moonscript which is a different language altogether (although it compiles to Lua). But if you insist, something a little more Lua-ish is Teal[1] (gradual types ala TypeScript) or Pallene[2] (companion typed subset of Lua meant to generate optimized C libraries for use with Lua).

[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl

[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

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Re:Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021) by Benjamin_Dobell on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:37PM (#33024353)

There's also my IDE which just bolts on types (both structural and nominal) to regular Lua - no transpiling as the types are defined with comments (or inferred).

https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to give it as much attention as it deserves recently.

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