edubart/nelua-lang
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Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2020-12-30 · latest 2026-02-05
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…analogy for Lua. There have been some attempts: Luau (5.2k, last week, https://luau.org/ , https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang ) Nelua (2.3k, 8 months ago, https://nelua.io/ , https://github.com/luau-lang/luau ) Terra (2.9k, 3 days ago,…
comment by publicdebates · 2026-02-05 · in Lily Programming Language -
I already asked this question exactly 2 years ago: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/51
comment by stefanos82 · 2023-01-27 · in Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua -
One under-advertised feature of the language is that it supports WASM: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/11 It’s been used successfully to make games for virtual game consoles like wasm4 and GamerCade.
comment by erlend_sh · 2023-01-26 · in Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua -
If you are interested, the README.md [1] explains everything in detail. [1] https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang#about
comment by stefanos82 · 2023-01-26 · in Nelua: AOT statically typed Lua -
…Lua's syntax, LISP's metaprogramming abilities, and C's performance, well there you have it! [1] https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang
comment by stefanos82 · 2022-06-16 · in The computers are fast, but you don't know it -
I would recommend the following: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/wiki/Useful-Links-for-Research The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367659247
comment by stefanos82 · 2021-11-22 · in Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM? -
…without unwanted consequences on the project, thus keeping the quality of the software." See https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/blob/bb5e71784f4065d25...
comment by davidthewatson · 2021-08-25 · in Nelua Programming Language -
Here's the author's thoughts on Nelua vs Terra[1]. [1]: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/51
comment by pull_my_finger · 2021-08-25 · in Nelua Programming Language -
A discussion about GC and memory management can be found here https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/70 Maybe it can answer to some parts of your reasoning? :/
comment by stephen82 · 2021-08-24 · in Nelua Programming Language -
…both are offering more than Teal's scope) [1]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene [2]: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang
comment by pull_my_finger · 2021-02-25 · in The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua