Luau VS AWorld ActNow

Luau mentions (27)

• Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect

  Alternatively, Luau is a well-supported Lua variant with type checking and performance improvements, aimed more towards being a sandboxed embedded scripting environment. https://luau-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language

  If you need Lua but also type-safety, how about Luau [1] then? [1] https://luau-lang.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Lua Criticism Is Unwarranted

  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 - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: Looking for platforms, other than Roblox, that have adopted Luau

  Looking at other replies here, I can see I wasn't the only one who didn't realize there is Lua and Luau. Luau is an extension of Lua: https://luau-lang.org/ > Luau is syntactically backwards-compatible with Lua 5.1 (code that is valid Lua 5.1 is also valid Luau); however, we have extended the language with a set of syntactical features that make the language more familiar and ergonomic. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• The Warframe Lexicon for Updates

  On a side note, I've heard that they recently switched from Lua to Roblox's own fork of Lua, Luau. Source: 11 months ago

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