luau-lang/luau
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A small, fast, and embeddable programming language based on Lua with a gradual type system.
16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 1 story, 15 comments · first 2021-11-03 · latest 2026-02-05
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…, 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, https://terralang.org/ , https://github.com/terralang/terra ) Teal (2.7k, 2 days ago,…
comment by publicdebates · 2026-02-05 · in Lily Programming Language -
…source compiled Lua with Types? Someone made a debugger for it that plugs into Visual Studio Code. https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/ https://github.com/sssooonnnggg/luau-debugger I'm working on an engine based in C++, Luau, and OpenGL -…
comment by slippy · 2025-05-22 · in Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 -
…that is developed and maintained by Roblox. It's entirely open source (you can see the repo here: https://github.com/luau-lang/luau ) and it's diverged a fair bit from Lua at this point. Most notably, it's quite a bit faster than the…
comment by Dekkonot · 2025-05-21 · in Lune: Standalone Luau Runtime -
…version of Lua named Luau, and open sourced it, and it's still in very active development. https://github.com/luau-lang/luau
comment by jwatte · 2025-05-16 · in Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua -
…buy it today. It’s not listed on their website. These days I think you’d use Luau? I’m not sure. https://github.com/luau-lang/luau
comment by forrestthewoods · 2024-12-26 · in Lua is so underrated -
…improvements to speed and QoL [2]. It also mostly alleviates the nil-terminated array problem. [1] https://github.com/luau-lang/luau [2] https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/tree/master/docs
comment by hipadev23 · 2024-12-26 · in Lua is so underrated -
…I believe they continuously fuzz the compiler to make sure those asserts can't be triggered. See https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/blob/0d2688844ab285af1ef52... It's fairly robust (and Luau bytecode isn't _that_ complex,) but they made the…
comment by HaroldCindy · 2024-06-30 · in Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws -
…of the most restrictive setup. But I would for example compare it with Luau's SECURITY.md. From https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/blob/master/SECURITY.md : > Luau provides a safe sandbox that scripts can not escape from, short of…
comment by fwsgonzo · 2024-01-11 · in Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically (2023) -
…not crazy. [1] https://twitter.com/kineticpoet [2] https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/luau-lsp [3] https://github.com/Roblox/luau/pull/1076
comment by cloudmike · 2023-10-21 · in Ask HN: Looking for platforms, other than Roblox, that have adopted Luau -
…language of choice. If you are focused on security, you could check out the Roblox fork, Luau ( https://github.com/Roblox/luau ) where the creators took extra care to lock down the language on what scripts could do.
comment by 0cf8612b2e1e · 2023-09-09 · in Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9 -
…on youtube - millions of views https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=luau+roblox&sp=... Luau https://github.com/Roblox/luau Roblox wrote a superset of Roblox Lua which is way faster https://luau-lang.org/
comment by epivosism · 2023-05-28 · in Lua: The Little Language That Could -
What about https://github.com/Roblox/luau ? It gives Typescript-like annotations.
comment by MapleWalnut · 2021-12-27 · in Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012) -
…is a big turn off. Roblox has the mlua fork, with increased performance and added type annotations: https://github.com/Roblox/luau
comment by erwincoumans · 2021-12-27 · in Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (2012) -
Actually went ahead and wrote an RFC for this: https://github.com/Roblox/luau/pull/109
comment by junon · 2021-11-03 · in Luau goes open-source -
The submission link is to the announcement. The GitHub repo is https://github.com/Roblox/luau .
comment by aw1621107 · 2021-11-03 · in Luau Goes Open Source