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Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

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218 points generichuman | 2 comments | 16 May 25 00:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source
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CobrastanJorji ◴[16 May 25 02:41 UTC] No.44001377[source]▶
This is very cool. I wonder if it works with Roblox, which is probably the environment with the largest number of Lua programmers. It certainly looks like it should work basically anywhere Lua works.
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fithisux ◴[16 May 25 03:56 UTC] No.44001706[source]▶
The use their dialect of Lua. Luau, stuck on 5.1 (correct me if I am wrong) like LuaJit for performance reasons.

It is gradually typed, so no need to use Teal.

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1. LoganDark ◴[16 May 25 08:36 UTC] No.44003068[source]▶
> Luau, stuck on 5.1 (correct me if I am wrong) like LuaJit for performance reasons.

It's not just for performance reasons, and they don't exactly have no features from newer versions. Take a look at the compatibility tables: https://luau.org/compatibility

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2. fithisux ◴[16 May 25 19:34 UTC] No.44009033[source]▶
Mainly on 5.1

Actually I love luau

the stuck was not expressed as negative, sorry If I gave the wrong impression.