I haven't, but I might have to do a lot of work to get it working, as my typical use of Lua is deeply embedded and customized, and doesn't allow any filesystem access. I will definitely look into that, though, thank you. The only real Lua dialect I'm familiar with in that area is Moonscript.
Terra and Nelua are both very different in goals than Teal. Teal is literally gradual types integrated into Lua keeping as many of Lua's idioms as possible (to a fault[1]). Terra and Nelua are both very metaprogrammable systems programming languages. Nelua's goals are primarily to soften C's rough edges, comparable to something like Nim.
There's another one you missed in Pallene[2]. But again, it's goal was to optimize the stack sharing involved in using the C API. It also adds types though and maintains Lua idioms as much as possible.
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I haven't, but I might have to do a lot of work to get it working, as my typical use of Lua is deeply embedded and customized, and doesn't allow any filesystem access. I will definitely look into that, though, thank you. The only real Lua dialect I'm familiar with in that area is Moonscript.
There's many different approaches to typed Lua:
- https://luau-lang.org (interpreted / sandboxed)
- https://terralang.org (JIT interpreted)
- https://nelua.io (Lua -> C)
- https://typescripttolua.github.io/ (TS -> Lua)
- https://github.com/teal-language/tl (Teal -> Lua)
- https://github.com/sumneko/lua-language-server (IDE only typing)
With minimum effort you can get a lot of benefit from using Sumneko's Lua language server.
Terra and Nelua are both very different in goals than Teal. Teal is literally gradual types integrated into Lua keeping as many of Lua's idioms as possible (to a fault[1]). Terra and Nelua are both very metaprogrammable systems programming languages. Nelua's goals are primarily to soften C's rough edges, comparable to something like Nim.
There's another one you missed in Pallene[2]. But again, it's goal was to optimize the stack sharing involved in using the C API. It also adds types though and maintains Lua idioms as much as possible.
[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/discussions/339
[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene