Luau VS Stripe Climate

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

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

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

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

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

Offset your emissions 2x with carbon sequestration. Note: not carbon offsets, pay for actual sequestration: this is a useful resource https://stripe.com/climate - note that carbon sequestration is orders of magnitude more expensive than carbon offsets because it actually accounts for the cost of putting that carbon in the ground. Source: about 1 year ago

Carbon capture is fascinating. Stripe Climate is the best resource I've found, check out their vetted projects towards the bottom of the page. Source: about 2 years ago

My company takes part in https://stripe.com/climate That's where soon billions USD can be spent (some projects are still in research stage). "Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29007726. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Stripe’s pocket or if it’s part of the 1% initiative [1] that Stripe has started. [1] https://stripe.com/climate. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

It feels like the web3 version of what Stripe is doing with their climate program. Centralized companies are focusing on their carbon footprint, and I personally think decentralized projects should be thinking about this as well. Source: over 2 years ago