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dbohdan / embedded-scripting-languages

A list of embedded scripting languages

http://dbohdan.github.io/embedded-scripting-languages/

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Add Luau language #72

Closed mwasplund closed 1 year ago

mwasplund commented 1 year ago

Luau is a fork of Lau be Roblox to introduce a gradual type system, improve sandboxing, guarantee backward compatibility and improve performance for their game engine. It was started in 2019 and was made open source around 2021.

bogen85 commented 1 year ago

Started in 2019? Yeah, looking at the their news page I see that but also that the work has been ongoing for 15 years or since 2006. Anyways, does not really matter.

The gradual typing and other strictness look interesting.

mwasplund commented 1 year ago

Based on their news articles Roblox was using Lua since 2006 and in 2019 they decided it was not scaling to their needs so they starting to create Luau: https://luau-lang.org/2022/11/04/luau-origins-and-evolution.html#respectful-evolution