webassembly-lua

Write and compile WebAssembly code with Lua

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What it is

Write and compile WebAssembly code with Lua

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peter_d_sherman·Oct 18, 2026

Observation: Teal would make a great scripting language for a simpler web browser, one not based on JavaScript... maybe something like the 'Surf' web browser: (https://surf.suckless.org/). Also, there should exist the capability to compile Teal to Wasm... or at least Teal to Lua to Wasm(!)... to that end, there exists the following GitHub repo (but I'm not sure if it's 100% operational yet): https://github.com/ysugimoto/webassembly-lua

In Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

capableweb·Feb 20, 2022

Not sure why'd you think this would have anything to do with WASM, the homepage is really clear what this is: > Fengari is the Lua VM written in JavaScript. It uses JavaScript's garbage collector so that interoperability with the DOM is non-leaky. WASM wouldn't use JS's GC, nor would provide interop with the DOM, so for the stated goals of this project, WASM would be a non-starter. There is prior art for Lua -> WASM in case you're interested in that: https://github.com/ysugimoto/webassembly-lua

In Fengari – Lua for the Browser