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Honestly, except for some of the syntactic quirks, this looks fabulous. I definitely think there's a need and space for type-safe embeddable scripting language
by hannofcart 3y ago
Honestly, except for some of the syntactic quirks, this looks fabulous.
I definitely think there's a need and space for type-safe embeddable scripting languages like this. Lua usually dominates this space but the lack of type-safety always kept me from adopting it wholeheartedly.
With Zig also in the picture, I can totally imagine an ecosystem that uses something like Buzz for scripting the high level parts of an application, Zig for the lower level performance critical stuff, and leveraging interop with the vast abundance of C libraries out there.
- lifthrasiir 3y agoIf you need Lua but also type-safety, how about Luau [1] then? [1] https://luau-lang.org/ https://luau-lang.org/
- hannofcart 3y agoWow, this looks great. With gradual typing too! Helps slowly port existing Lua projects over. Thanks for linking to this.
- TheCipster 3y agoYou might find https://nelua.io https://nelua.io interesting.
- erlend_sh 3y agoThere’s also Teal, a typed dialect in Lua, written in plain Lua: https://github.com/teal-language/tl https://github.com/teal-language/tl