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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.


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.


> 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


Mainly on 5.1

Actually I love luau

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




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