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Comment · 7 months ago
WSJ not tryna be found negligent in any social-media addiction trial.
Comment · 7 months ago
"Rule 6: Don't waste time on syntax highlighting unless you're incompetent."
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
You don't think AWS is internally built on massive amounts of open source?
Comment · 8 months ago
Isn't this the same debate as airports post 9/11, whether you can have both privacy and security? Seems conclusive, no.
Comment · 8 months ago
And a difference in price that amortizes about the same.
Comment · 8 months ago
And starting fires or making coats used to be forms of art, now we just buy a Zippo and a London Fog and call it an afternoon. Jobs evolve to specialize. I call that progress.
Comment · 9 months ago
Also it looks like[1] Luau is the official Roblox Studio scripting language, and is baed on Lua 5.1 (possibly LuaJIT?) which means it's behind mainstream Lua.
Not sure which Lua versions the others are based on.
Comment · 9 months ago
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.
Comment · 9 months ago
It uses refcounting, and GC for cycles. Sounds good. Why don't more Lua-likes?
Comment · 9 months ago
The article says it's repurposed.