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:crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

12 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2012-03-23 · latest 2026-02-06

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    Moonscript v0.6.0 Released
    story by P_qRs · 2026-02-06 · 0 comments
  2. …https://github.com/leafo/sightreading.training It's written in a language called 'Moonscript': https://github.com/leafo/moonscript Which compiles to Lua. Which compiles to JS. Madness. Nice madness, but still, it stopped me from being a…
    comment by jacquesm · 2023-07-16 · in Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
  3. …in one of the various Lua transpilers like moonscript [0], or maybe even typescript [1]! [0]: 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
  4. …- definitely worth taking a look at. [1] It started when I tried to add some FP conveniences to MS: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/issues/407 [2] https://github.com/piotrklibert/AwesomeScript - nothing interesting yet, just a few…
    comment by klibertp · 2020-02-01 · in MoonScript: Dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua
  5. …but I'm satisfied regardless. It has definitely improved my productivity. http://moonscript.org https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
    comment by leafo · 2017-03-07 · in Ask HN: Have you created a programming language and why?
  6. Also, Moonscript which compiles to Lua is developed on GitHub. https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
    comment by vesche · 2017-01-03 · in Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
  7. …I've written an entire programming language with them: http://moonscript.org/ Here's the grammar: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/blob/master/moonscript/p... My favorite part is that you express the grammar in code, not some simplified…
    comment by leafo · 2016-09-15 · in Show HN: Using Parsing Expression Grammars to rewrite source code
  8. Excellent timing, just released a new version of MoonScript today, here it is in release form: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/releases/v0.2.4
    comment by leafo · 2013-07-02 · in Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users
  9. see https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/issues/35 . is taken. : is taken. propose a better alternate and maybe it'll end up in the language.
    comment by MichaelGlass · 2013-04-24 · in Show HN: Lapis – A web framework for MoonScript and OpenResty
  10. …(even CoffeeScript 2.0 is being written with a PEG.) You can check out the guts of the parser here: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript/blob/master/moonscript/p...
    comment by leafo · 2012-11-05 · in MoonScript v0.2.2 is released
  11. This would have been cleaner with Moonscript: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
    comment by egonschiele · 2012-05-21 · in Zedshaw/Tir
  12. If Coffeescript is on here, Moonscript should be added too: https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
    comment by egonschiele · 2012-03-23 · in Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?