What does HackerNews think of luau?
A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
Language:
C++
Lua is usually the embedded language of choice. If you are focused on security, you could check out the Roblox fork, Luau (https://github.com/Roblox/luau) where the creators took extra care to lock down the language on what scripts could do.
yep.
Roblox Lua/Luau tutorials on youtube - millions of views https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=luau+roblox&sp=...
Luau
https://github.com/Roblox/luau
Roblox wrote a superset of Roblox Lua which is way faster https://luau-lang.org/
What about https://github.com/Roblox/luau? It gives Typescript-like annotations.
It is nice small, so Lua even ran on Playstation 3 SPU!
We used to ship lua binaries for the premake build system.
For me, the indexed from 1 rather than 0 is a big turn off.
Roblox has the mlua fork, with increased performance and added type annotations: https://github.com/Roblox/luau
The submission link is to the announcement. The GitHub repo is https://github.com/Roblox/luau.