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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
cyber
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ChatGPT4 can now write entire applications
The language is Cyber, an embedable scripting language written in Zig: https://cyberscript.dev/
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Announcement: the Diatom programming language v0.6.0.alpha
Nice work! I’m always on the lookout for new Lua-likes as a prospective gamedev scripting language. Recently I came by one quite similar to Diatom called Cyber; well worth a look.
- Cyber 0.2 - Modules, gamedev, fast strings.
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Cyber 0.2 - A scripting language written in Zig.
Yeah that's weird. Definitely better than as though.
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Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language
> more strongly typed alternatives
See also this list for comparison https://github.com/fubark/cyber/issues/6, if you dont want lua by a meta-compiler.
If you want non-allocating scripting for optimal performance (and io limited to what you provide as buffer), go for https://dascript.org/. I dont think there are currently other projects with that performance (+ also inspired by Zig).
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Cyber is a new language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting
From the GitHub page, here are some binary releases: https://github.com/fubark/cyber/releases
What are some alternatives?
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
nvim-cyber - Syntax Highlighting for the Cyber Scripting Language for NeoVim
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
extempore - A cyber-physical programming environment
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
ui-monorepo - ChainSafe Files & Storage UI Monorepo
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua
bog - Small, strongly typed, embeddable language.