nelua-lang

Many of us would love a TypeScript analogy for Lua. There have been some attempts: Luau (5.2k, last week, https://luau.org/, 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, https://teal-language.org/, https://github.com/teal-language/tl) The Luau author is always on the official Lua mailing list, and it has twice as many stars, so it seems likely to win the long term popularity contest.

I already asked this question exactly 2 years ago: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/51

One under-advertised feature of the language is that it supports WASM: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/11 It’s been used successfully to make games for virtual game consoles like wasm4 and GamerCade.

If you are interested, the README.md [1] explains everything in detail. [1] https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang#about

> Nobody has created a language that is both thousands of times faster than Python and nearly as straightforward to learn and to use. Not Python-based, but Lua-based is Nelua [1] If you like Lua's syntax, LISP's metaprogramming abilities, and C's performance, well there you have it! [1] https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang

I would recommend the following: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/wiki/Useful-Links-for-Research The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367659247

I'd suggest you submit a pull request, but then you'd get this response from the PR parser: "Nelua is open source, but not very open to contributions in the form of pull requests, if you would like something fixed or implemented in the core language try first submitting a bug report or opening a discussion instead of doing a PR. The authors prefer it this way, so that the ideal solution is always provided, without unwanted consequences on the project, thus keeping the quality of the software." See https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/blob/bb5e71784f4065d25...

Here's the author's thoughts on Nelua vs Terra[1]. [1]: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/51

A discussion about GC and memory management can be found here https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/70 Maybe it can answer to some parts of your reasoning? :/

> Every type in Teal accepts nil as a valid value, even if, like in Lua, attempting to use it with some operations would cause a runtime error, so be aware! There has been a fair bit of discussion about this design decision/limitation recently in other channels. Seems like that's one of the main safety checks you'd want/expect from a compiler. That said - Pallene[1] and Nelua[2] are two very promising projects in similar spaces (although both are offering more than Teal's scope) [1]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene [2]: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang