Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by kragen on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:01PM (#45296821)

Did you say just 1.7MB? For the REPL alone? Or is that with a bunch of heavyweight libraries?

The Lua REPL executable on my cellphone is 0.17 megabytes.

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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by kragen on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:08PM (#45308787)

Also for the first ten years I used computers I was using all kinds of REPLs on computers that didn't have 1.7MB of RAM. On my first computer, which had one floppy drive and no hard drive, 1.7MB would have been 17 floppy disks, or 26 times the size of its RAM. So I'm kind of unconvinced by this stance that 1.7MB is a small REPL.

I mean, it's smaller than bash? But even your mom is smaller than bash.

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