| ▲ | pansa2 12 hours ago | |
> statically-typed > Embed/extend in C Is Lily intended to be (or could it be used as) a statically-typed alternative to Lua? Personally I'm happy with dynamic typing for scripting - but I suspect many people would welcome a statically-typed option, and there don't seem to be many available. | ||
| ▲ | publicdebates a minute ago | parent [-] | |
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. | ||