TypeScriptToLua Alternatives

TypeScriptToLua reviews and mentions

• The Teal Programming Language
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2025

  This is super cool. I have been using TypeScript To Lua (https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua) for a little game side project and it works quite well, I am pleased with it. It does end up generating a lot of Lua code though because it has to support all of TypeScript’s features, which isn’t ideal. I’d expect Teal’s output to be much more concise Lua which has me interested.

• Lang Lua
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2022

  I've had some success with https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua

  Luau may be an alternative as well, haven't tried it.

  I love Lua, but at larger scales it's unmanageable.

• Are there any 3rd party libraries which enables us to write nvim plugins?
  7 projects | /r/neovim | 3 Oct 2022

  There are some plugins (typescript.nvim) that use a Typescript to lua transpiler (TypescriptToLua]

• Since my driver video was well received last time, here is another: Building an SD Card driver from scratch
  1 project | /r/javascript | 8 Feb 2022

  54:28 reminded me of TypeScriptToLua, so if you wanted to, then you could turn this into Lua :^)

• Window.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022

  One immediate comparison that springs to my mind is the Löve 2D engine [1], which is a tiny game engine written entirely around Lua scripting (so that Lua includes the full game run loop as well).

  Lua is a good scripting language, but it doesn't have the ubiquity of JS (and Löve doesn't have the ubiquitous deployment of the modern browser). Also, Lua doesn't have a static type ecosystem (though there are interesting projects like TypescriptToLua [2] exploring that space, but you can from the name they are following/lagging the JS ecosystem here).

  There probably is a need to package more browser games as "real" games and a lightweight Canvas-focused approach could find a nice like Löve, especially if it were easier, for instance, to maybe port to consoles for small/indie game teams than one of the web views or Electron. (Though certainly Microsoft already has a version of WebView2 running on the Xbox.)

  [1] https://love2d.org/

  [2] https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua

• Your favorite mod just added something you've wanted for years. What is it?
  5 projects | /r/feedthebeast | 9 Jan 2022

  Not part of the mods, but using https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua is quite easy and works surprisingly well. You can find some of the type definitions for computercraft here: https://github.com/Eforen/cc-tweaked-types/tree/master/declarations

• TypeScript to Lua Transpiler
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2021
• LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2021
• Neovim v0.5
  33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2021
• Forking the typescript compiler and building on it?
  5 projects | /r/typescript | 14 Jun 2021

  It might be helpful to keep in mind: Typescript is a compiler that parses a Typescript AST and prints out whatever you want. So if your goal is to use it in a JS context, the only thing regulating what you do with it is that it outputs valid JS that can be interpreted by the various JS engines. There are projects like TypeScriptToLua which uses the TS compiler to print out Lua code.

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