PlutoLang/Pluto
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A superset of Lua 5.5 with a focus on general-purpose programming.
4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2023-12-27 · latest 2025-09-18
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I actually came across https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto and it seems to be all the things you would want from Luau but without the connection to Roblox
comment by james2doyle · 2025-09-18 · in Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua -
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Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programmingstory by 90s_dev · 2025-07-01 · 40 comments
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…optimize the switch so that would outperform the manual jump table (by a decent margin)? [1] https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/main/src/ljumptabgcc... [2] https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/main/src/ljumptab.h
comment by celeritascelery · 2023-12-28 · in Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect -
"Interesting" is not the word I would use for that Where does `$file` come from in `for_each_obj` < https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/0.8.0/scripts/compil... > ... from `scandir` of "src" of course:…
comment by mdaniel · 2023-12-27 · in Pluto, a Modern Lua Dialect