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bog
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Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language
Looking at the two of them, both awesome projects, not a competition but here are a few things I noticed. Cyber seems to have pretty good documentation (maybe Bog does too but I didn't find too much from the readme. For example, you can see Bog has a GC and its standard library supports JSON, but memory management and non-scalar data structures aren't mentioned in the Bog readme).
Cyber also seems to be under more active development at the moment.
https://github.com/vexu/bog/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/fubark/cyber/graphs/contributors
- Bog – Small, strongly typed, embeddable language
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If you made a library in Zig. Could you use that library inside C? (and by extension, almost all programming languages, since most languages support C libraries to some extent)
Check bog for a real life example https://github.com/vexu/bog
tl
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Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers
it's based off MIR, does it have something to do with https://mlir.llvm.org/ ?
for typed lua, there is another effort https://github.com/teal-language/tl in addition to the mentioned typescript approach: https://github.com/andremm/typedlua
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Lua Criticism Is Unwarranted
I had the pleasure of working with Lua 5.1 back in the late noughties. For me it's replaced Tcl whenever I want something I can configure above a C library. At the time I used it I found it quite nice but I'll also not forget the hours I wasted tracking down nil table corruptions which could have easily been caught by a type checker.
I had some hope that Luau https://luau-lang.org or Teal https://github.com/teal-language/tl would make things better but with the following example
function foo(x: number): string
- Why Fennel?
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Algebraic data types in Lua (Almost) post
I wonder why the author doesn't use Teal [0] - a typed dialect of lua.
[O] https://github.com/teal-language/tl
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
Check out Teal
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What's the deal with Fennel in Neovim?
There is already https://github.com/teal-language/tl, which is typed Lua. I think fennel exists to serve a different niche-- personally I use it not for any type features; I just like the syntax better, and others may find certain features like the macro system useful.
- Using Lua with C++
- Teal – Type Hints for Lua
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Using other languages
There's also some languages made to compile straight to Lua: - MoonScript is the most popular Lua wrapper - it's built to be more Python-like, featuring indentation-based scopes, function calls without parentheses, lambda syntax, list comprehension, and much more. - Yuescript is a modern update to MoonScript that adds more features (I haven't used it myself, so I'm not entirely sure exactly how it differs from MS). - Teal is a version of Lua that adds static typing for better code standards.
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Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language
Terra and Nelua are both very different in goals than Teal. Teal is literally gradual types integrated into Lua keeping as many of Lua's idioms as possible (to a fault[1]). Terra and Nelua are both very metaprogrammable systems programming languages. Nelua's goals are primarily to soften C's rough edges, comparable to something like Nim.
There's another one you missed in Pallene[2]. But again, it's goal was to optimize the stack sharing involved in using the C API. It also adds types though and maintains Lua idioms as much as possible.
[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/discussions/339
[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
What are some alternatives?
gale - Strongly-typed, minimal-ish, stack-based development at storm-force speed.
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
zls - A Zig language server supporting Zig developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition
OpenBBTerminal - Investment Research for Everyone, Everywhere.
LoLa - LoLa is a small programming language meant to be embedded into games.
packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
rpi-open-firmware - Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi.
arocc - A C compiler written in Zig.
luaforwindows - Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for the Lua scripting language on Windows. NOTICE: Looking for maintainer.
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
pallene - Pallene Compiler