Lua Criticism Is Unwarranted

• tl

  54 1,935 7.7 Lua

  The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

  

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

• luau

  64 3,615 9.0 C++

  A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua

  

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

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• nvimconfig

  1 1 9.3 Lua

  Neovim configuration of mine (by caligian)

https://github.com/caligian/nvimconfig

https://github.com/caligian/lua-utils

The former uses the latter for nvim. And the latter makes lua perl with structs. We all loved perl for its lispy functions to deal with lists - grep, map, push, shift, unshift, etc

• lua-utils

  1 1 8.1 Lua

  Essential lua utilities.

https://github.com/caligian/nvimconfig

https://github.com/caligian/lua-utils

The former uses the latter for nvim. And the latter makes lua perl with structs. We all loved perl for its lispy functions to deal with lists - grep, map, push, shift, unshift, etc

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