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Lua is a programming language written in C that emphasizes performance. It has automatic memory management and is often used to extend software written in other languages.

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nilq
nilq commented Jul 4, 2020

This is something we need to have. While it does have some downsides in introducing bad practice behavior, it's pretty useful.

Given lib.wu with the following content:

bob := "BUILDER"
important_number: float = 100.0

The following otherfile.wu ...

import lib { * }

Should automatically generate the following import code in otherfile.lua:

enhancement good first issue
XVilka
XVilka commented Jan 5, 2019
  • Python 2 support (ends in one year) - an probably all versions less than 3.4
  • PHP5 (support just ended this year) - maybe porting to PHP7?
  • Luvit support - 7 years no updates
  • Newlisp - 7 years no updates
  • Guile - 7 years no updates
  • Awk - 6 years no updates (is anyone using them at all?)

Created by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

Released 1993

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