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luau

Gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua

Luau 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.

Available in

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gentoo gitweb ↗ 0.707 2 14 h details ›

Versions & arches

VersionOverlay amd64x86 Committed
0.707 gentoo amd64 stable x86 testing view · download · history ↗
0.669 gentoo amd64 stable x86 testing view · download · history ↗

Use flags of 0.707

  • static-libs Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well
  • test Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)