Fengari Alternatives

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• The Fennel Programming Language
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2024

  With "[sprintf] unexpected placeholder".

  This is presumably https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari/issues/147. You can workaround it by substituting "%.f" for "%.0f" in https://fennel-lang.org/fennel/fennel.lua.

  However Chrome won't let me override the contents of this URL for some reason, so you can alternatively override the contents https://fennel-lang.org/fengari-web.js as follows:

  `"string" == typeof o.response ? a.f = yt(o.response.replace("%.f","%.0f")) : a.f = new Uint8Array(o.response.replace("%.f","%.0f"));`

  (Just before `var l = Ee(a);`)

• Lua: The Little Language That Could
  19 projects | /r/programming | 28 May 2023

  it should be possible, the article mentions https://fengari.io/ (a Lua VM written in JavaScript)

• OmG jAVaScRiPt InSeCuRe. LuA bETtEr.
  1 project | /r/masterhacker | 16 Mar 2023

  Check out Fengari or Lapis. Fun fact: itch.io is written primarily in Lua, and started by the same person who made Lapis and MoonScript.

• Lua is the fourth-fastest growing language on GitHub
  1 project | /r/lua | 4 Dec 2022

  I was real excited to see these recently... have you tried any? https://fengari.io/ is the one I was most intrigued by.

• How to embed lua in a JS webapp?
  1 project | /r/lua | 21 Oct 2022

  Hello, there is also fengari: https://fengari.io/

• PyScript
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022

  Other languages have done that :)

  Lua in the browser: https://fengari.io/

  And then you can use that to run Fennel, a Lisp that compiles to Lua https://fennel-lang.org/

  I think TypeScript also has a script you can include that lets you put your TS code in a special script tag, and it gets compiled in-browser.

• Intro to PyScript: Run Python in your web browser
  1 project | /r/programming | 21 Jun 2022

  just use lua, it’s what should have been used for web scripting anyways

• Upcoming interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy
  2 projects | /r/lua | 14 Jun 2022

  Please stop this stuck in the mud nonsense. Anyone stumbling upon lua.org might think the project is dead already. The material is great, close to the best, but its presentation is pure shite. Not mobile friendly (what kinds of device do you think the majority of people in the Global South use?). We live in a world of code highlighting, none of that in PiL. We live in a world where Fengari allows Lua to run in the browser, does that make an appearance on lua.org, allowing users to immediately play with the language? Of course not! It's almost as if the Lua team is trying to push away potential users.

• A First Look at PyScript: Python in the Web Browser – Real Python
  1 project | /r/programming | 7 Jun 2022

  why not use lua

• I really like to think of PyScript as the “Minecraft of software development”
  1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 6 May 2022

  Just use lua https://fengari.io/

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