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Languages that compile to Lua

20 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 19 comments · first 2020-02-01 · latest 2025-10-02

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  1. …https://moonscript.org/ And YueScript, a personal fave: https://yuescript.org/doc/ A whole list: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by pmarreck · 2025-10-02 · in Why I chose Lua for this blog
  2. …are also some neat languages that compile to (transpile to?) Lua Here is a comprehensive list: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages . Lanuages like Oberon or Luon directly compile to LuaJIT bytecode (i.e. not to Lua).
    comment by Rochus · 2025-05-16 · in Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
  3. …(and so does CoffeScript, Elm, etc. etc.) There are many language projects that transpile to Lua: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages?tab=readme-ov-fi...
    comment by cies · 2024-07-08 · in QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine
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    List of languages that compile to Lua
    story by cab404 · 2023-11-13 · 0 comments
  5. There are quite many languages compiling to Lua (or LuaJIT). Fennel is just one of them. See e.g. https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages .
    comment by Rochus · 2023-09-13 · in Why Fennel?
  6. …post inspired me to look for an ML-like language that compiles to lua and I found this useful list: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by gsuuon · 2023-09-13 · in Why Fennel?
  7. …free to use not just Lua, but they can pick from a host of cool transpile-to-Lua languages [1]. [1] https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by gyulai · 2022-11-13 · in #lang Lua
  8. …python. Also, you can look for a python transpiler to lua, or any that you like. Take your pick. https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by nmz · 2022-07-19 · in Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
  9. Take your pick: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by xigoi · 2022-04-12 · in Chumsky: A Tutorial
  10. …Here's a whole list of languages that compile to Lua (many of them statically typed): https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by japhib · 2021-11-03 · in Luau goes open-source
  11. There's a list of languages that compile to Lua here: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by edrx · 2021-10-11 · in Python and Lua (2019)
  12. …https://github.com/leafo/moonscript [1]: https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua [2]: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by ibraheemdev · 2021-07-02 · in Neovim v0.5
  13. Plenty of lisp frontends for lua, see https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages#lisp
    comment by Rochus · 2020-09-06 · in Fennel – Lisp in Lua
  14. …than for it, but there's already a huge chunk of languages that compile to/add types to Lua ( https://github.com/hengestone/Lua-languages ), with Wu and Amulet looking intriguing to me.
    comment by toastal · 2020-08-17 · in MicroPython
  15. …already available statically/strictly typed languages which compile to Lua or LuaJIT bytecode? See https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by Rochus · 2020-08-05 · in Luau – A fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua
  16. ….com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk#a-smalltalk-80-in... , or here a whole list of other language frontends: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by Rochus · 2020-07-16 · in What's New in Lua 5.4
  17. Here is a more complete list: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages
    comment by Rochus · 2020-06-30 · in Languages That Compile to Lua
  18. There are a lot of alternatives. See https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages . These languages use the Lua or LuaJIT VM as a backend, either as a Lua transpiler or a bytecode compiler.
    comment by Rochus · 2020-06-09 · in Gravity: An embeddable programming language without any external dependencies
  19. …). Here is a fairly complete list of languages compiling to Lua: https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages . Gravity could be one of these if need be.
    comment by Rochus · 2020-06-09 · in Gravity: An embeddable programming language without any external dependencies
  20. There is a whole bunch of languages compiling to Lua, see e.g. https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages LuaJIT is still one of the fastest VMs around and it's worthwhile to be used as a backend either by transpiling to Lua or compiling…
    comment by Rochus · 2020-02-01 · in MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua