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A compiler and IDE for the Luon programming language - a liaison beween Lua and Oberon+ - targeting LuaJIT

12 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2024-12-10 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. There is another one, which is not a transpiler: https://github.com/rochus-keller/luon
    comment by Rochus · 2026-10-18 · in Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
  2. I have many GPL projects (e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon , https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon , https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron ) and spend a significant amount of time in them. GPL has always explicitly permitted…
    comment by Rochus · 2026-06-01 · in Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
  3. …I have used both in different projects (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon or https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon ), and currently I'm even implementing a LuaJIT bytecode generator for my Micron intermediate language which…
    comment by Rochus · 2026-05-28 · in The Green Side of the Lua
  4. …If you are looking for something more modern, go to https://github.com/rochus-keller/oberon , https://github.com/rochus-keller/luon or https://github.com/rochus-keller/micron .
    comment by Rochus · 2026-04-12 · in Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)
  5. Or Luon: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon
    comment by Rochus · 2025-07-01 · in Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming
  6. …as far as I can tell See https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon , and derived languages such as https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon or https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron , which inherit the "spirit of Oberon", but specialize for…
    comment by Rochus · 2025-05-04 · in Oberon Pi
  7. …some keywords with Pascal. If you are interested in even more Lua similarities, have a look at https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon , which I published recently, but which compiles to LuaJIT and thus serves different use-cases than C. > I…
    comment by Rochus · 2025-02-22 · in Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect?
  8. …from Lua, it's statically typed and targets the LuaJIT VM. It was recently covered in HN [2] [1] https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon/blob/master/Readme.md [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413343
    comment by liberix · 2024-12-27 · in Lua is so underrated
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    Show HN: A new Bluebook implementation of the Smalltalk-80 VM
    story by Rochus · 2024-12-14 · 0 comments
  10. …glad that it went with Oberon's 0-based array indices, as opposed to Lua's 1-based table indices. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon/blob/master/specificat...
    comment by omoikane · 2024-12-14 · in Luon programming language
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    Luon programming language
    story by thunderbong · 2024-12-13 · 119 comments
  12. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon
    comment by Rochus · 2024-12-10 · in Ask HN: Favorite scripting language? (non-Python)