Luau
Fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
What is Luau?
Luau (lowercase u, /'lu.a?/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from 
Lua.
It is designed to be backwards compatible with Lua 5.1, as well as incorporating some features from future Lua releases, but also expands the feature set (most notably with type annotations). Luau is largely implemented from scratch, with the language runtime being a very heavily modified version of Lua 5.1 runtime, with completely rewritten interpreter and other performance innovations. The runtime mostly preserves Lua 5.1 API, so existing bindings should be more or less compatible with a few caveats.
Luau is used by 
Roblox game developers to write game code, as well as by Roblox engineers to implement large parts of the user-facing application code as well as portions of the editor (https://alternativeto.net/software/roblox-studio/about/) as plugins. Roblox chose to open-source Luau to foster collaboration within the Roblox community as well as to allow other companies and communities to benefit from the ongoing language and runtime innovation.
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Luau information
- Developed byRoblox
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives60 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
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- 278 Forks
- 111 Open Issues
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- Programming Language
- Scripting language
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DevelopmentRecent user activities on Luau
flamenco687 added Lua scripting as a feature to Luau- flamenco687 edited Luau
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