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Type-safe Lua IDE — IntelliJ IDEA plugin

11 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2020-08-20 · latest 2025-05-16

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  1. …can get pretty far by bolting annotations onto Lua (no compilation step), for example using my IDE: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis Admittedly, I've been focused on some other things recently, but still with some…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2025-05-16 · in Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
  2. …logistics space? I was 19. I was young and naive. I'm sorry! > Ever written your own IDE? You bet. https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis > Ever reverse engineered Steam's P2P protocol? Well, yeah. But only because I wanted…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2025-03-04 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)
  3. …/ static analysis. And I say this as the author of an IDE that bolts those features onto Lua: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2023-06-09 · in DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices
  4. …type checking to regular Lua. Inference, structural & nominal types, generics etc. (Luanalysis - https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/ ) I feel like plugin support would be best but I've no idea how that's supposed to…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2023-01-26 · in Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua
  5. …and nominal) to regular Lua - no transpiling as the types are defined with comments (or inferred). https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/ Unfortunately, I haven't been able to give it as much attention as it deserves…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2022-09-29 · in Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
  6. …you can absolutely implement your own operators. If you want static typing you can use my IDE: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/ Granted, my IDE is incredibly opinionated and not for everyone. Also, Lua is not my…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2022-08-10 · in A History of Lua (2001)
  7. …Seems unnecessary for a prototype, but sure. Me: I had to write my own IDE to use them though. https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis Friend: Right... So how's the game going then? Me: Oh, I'm not doing that anymore. I now…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2021-05-17 · in Building a personal website in 2021
  8. Shameless self promotion: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2020-09-18 · in Lua in the Kernel?
  9. …IDE support, and not worry about transpilation; then you may be interested in my little project: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis/ https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14698-luanalysis It's essentially Flow for Lua.…
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2020-09-12 · in Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with Types
  10. …just share here for anyone interested. Luanalysis - An IDE for statically typed Lua development. https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
    comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2020-08-20 · in Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go