Lua, a Misunderstood Language

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  • lodash.lua

    lodash inspired library for lua

  • There's https://github.com/danielmgmi/lodash.lua :-)

    And also https://luafun.github.io, which probably has overlapping functionality and is optimized with regards to LuaJIT.

  • nodemcu-firmware

    Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32

  • If anyone wants to be paid for porting http://www.eluaproject.net/ and https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware firmware to new ARM hardware + ethernet (not wifi) let me know. Other ongoing embedded work available.

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  • tl

    The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

  • Regarding statically typed languages, I think this is probably a good spot to plug Teal:

    https://github.com/teal-language/tl

    It's a statically typed dialect of Lua, which is compatible with all modern Lua versions. The core compiler itself is one tl.lua file which can add a package loader that makes `require()` support .tl files, and there's also a tl CLI for generating .lua from .tl files.

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