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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by mikulas_florek on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:01PM (#45293630)
Yes, I mean Luau itself, not the scripts.
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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by jhatemyjob on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:18PM (#45294477)
In that case, wouldn't incremental builds solve this?
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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by jwatte on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:45PM (#45295406)
Also, why would you need to compile it more than the one initial time? Are you actually making changes to Luau itself, rather than just using it?
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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by fourthark on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:48PM (#45297758)
Think they meant their C++ bindings for Luau, not Luau itself.
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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by mikulas_florek on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:54AM (#45301149)
No, I mean Luau itself. I distribute Luau as dll by default, but without the analysis module, to keep it small (~600KB). If users want to have analysis, they need to build Luau from source. Bindings are not an issue, since they use only C API from Luau, which is fast to compile.
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