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pallene
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LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
It would have been nice if LuaX was written in Lua.
Forking Pallene (https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene) would introduce:
- Which for loop method is faster
- Using Lua with C++
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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
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Nelua, AOT statically typed Lua
That was somewhat of an entertaining read.
> Terra is C if you replaced the preprocessor with Lua.
This is what is written on the tin.
PUC made there own version of Terra
Pallene http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/Gualandi-2020-SCP.pd...
https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3inzGGFefg
This is a good writeup on all the Alt-Luas https://injuly.in/blog/gsoc/
- data types in function definition
- You can make Lua compiled/statically typed using Teal... It's like TypeScript, but for Lua!
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Lua, a Misunderstood Language
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
- Interesting discussion about lua on Hacker News
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Upcoming interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy
You might be thinking of Pallene (previously named Titan) https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
civlua
- LAP: Lua Async Protocol
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IBM 360 in UK need a home
http://civboot.org is basically trying to answer exactly this question
- Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
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Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
I'm designing a simple dev environment from scratch.
My solution for this is a sandboxed lua for programatic configuration:
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/luck
I can't stand JSON (for many reasons) so I created a serialization format that combines it and CSV for nested objects
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/tso
I wish the industry would standardize on a solution like this. IMO you shouldn't use a "real" language unless you can lock it down to be determinisitic. JSON is supposed to be human readable but fails for lots of real-world data like multi-line strings or lists of records.
CSV is more readable but doesn't supported nested objects.
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Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
Have you tried for any length of time?
For example, there's lots of little places where aligning keywords helps clarify code
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ds/ds.lua#L89
Formatters HATE putting multiple statements on a single line, but when they go it makes it so much easier to parse (for a person)
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LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
I've built a lua-based markdown which is more sane (from a programmer's PoV) than markdown but still concise
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/cxt
I'm planning on supporting syntax highlighting. I could imagine creating a cxx that does what LuaX is doing, except it would support rendering to the command line as well as html.
Want to team up?
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Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB
Reading "big features" like "multi line input" makes me feel more than ever that we really need an ultra light weight embeddedable text editor.
I wrote one, and while it's not yet complete I can say it's really _not that hard_
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ele/README.md
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22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage (2022)
Sam was one of my main inspirations in starting http://civboot.org. Awesome to see he's managed to make his own chip now!
- I'm building a self-bootstrapped embeddedable programming environment in Lua
- Civlua: Self contained software to build a minimalist development environment
What are some alternatives?
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
berry - A ultra-lightweight embedded scripting language optimized for microcontrollers.
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
ucode - JavaScript-like language with optional templating
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
go - The Go programming language
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
zeptoforth - A not-so-small Forth for Cortex-M
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
Vale - Compiler for the Vale programming language - http://vale.dev/
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
dmd - dmd D Programming Language compiler