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219 points generichuman | 1 comments | 16 May 25 00:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

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90s_dev ◴[16 May 25 01:06 UTC] No.44000882[source]▶

I'm so relieved to see more types being added to good languages.

So Teal is to Lua as TypeScript is to JavaScript. Which means it automatically plays well with any Lua environment. Unlike luau and nelua which are also statically typed but have their own runtimes.

What version of Lua does it use? Lua gets new versions every few years so I don't know why so many impls don't continuously upgrade to the latest version.

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1. 90s_dev ◴[16 May 25 01:07 UTC] No.44000888[source]▶

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> The core compiler has no dependencies and is implemented as a single tl.lua file which you can load into your projects. Running tl.loader() will add Teal support to your package loader, meaning that require() will be able to run .tl files.

Genius design.

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Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua