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• luau

  64 3,595 9.0 C++

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

  

Also it should be noted that LuaJITs hash table shape specialization is also done in the JIT, which is similar to the IC that the author is doing in the interpreter. Roblox's Luau actually does hash table shape specialization in the interpreter

• wordgrinder

  20 816 8.5 Lua

  A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done.

I have a word processor I wrote (https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder) which is mostly written in Lua, with hardware-specific stuff in C, and while this works extremely well, I'd very much like something with stronger typing. There's a possibility I'd be able to just drop in Luau and get it, plus some performance benefits. I'd need to reimplement parts of the standard library due to Luau having dropped things like the io library but that's no great hardship. I like the syntax, too, which is expressive and very lightweight.

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