Can this be used instead of Lua with Redis? Is there an example somewhere of that?
MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
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Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#32Hey all, I made MoonScript about 6 years ago. I used it to build a ton of opensource stuff in addition to the company I founded. I use it every day and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I regret not updating the language more frequently, but I've been busy building a bunch of stuff in it. The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis It's used for the followi…
I was just looking at love2d, I don't know much about it. My son is 8 and is very bored with Scratch. A once over the documentation makes me think love2d might be a good fit for a next step from Scratch. How is the love2d community and is it active?
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#33Hey all, I made MoonScript about 6 years ago. I used it to build a ton of opensource stuff in addition to the company I founded. I use it every day and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I regret not updating the language more frequently, but I've been busy building a bunch of stuff in it. The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis It's used for the followi…
Dude, this is neat. Itch.io is a great site, I've bought a few things through it.
I like how your HN profile page mentions only MoonScript and not itch.io, though, in that the former is an open source project and the latter is a company :)
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#34I understand that people love programming in classes, but I really want something like a stripped-down ES6. In particular, I want: 1. Lists and objects/dicts only; objects have no prototypes at all; objects have no first-class methods, but they can have functions as member variables, and those functions can close over other data in the object 2. All function and variable declaration is anonymous (as a consequence of…
Clojure [1] seems to meet all of these criteria. It's a functional language where you can get away with using only a few data types, while also supporting (most of) the rest of the things you mention. [1] https://clojure.org/
I like the idea, but I want it to be embeddable and since I'll mostly be embedding this in some syntactically C-like language, I would like the scripting syntax to not look so out of place. I updated my previous post to say as much.
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#35Hey all, I made MoonScript about 6 years ago. I used it to build a ton of opensource stuff in addition to the company I founded. I use it every day and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I regret not updating the language more frequently, but I've been busy building a bunch of stuff in it. The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis It's used for the followi…
I was just looking at love2d, I don't know much about it. My son is 8 and is very bored with Scratch. A once over the documentation makes me think love2d might be a good fit for a next step from Scratch. How is the love2d community and is it active?
The love2d community is definitely still active, especially on IRC. Some of the nicest folks I've ever spoken to over the internet.
I can't recommend the language or its community highly enough.
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#36Lua is a great language and MoonScript improves on it even further. I used MoonScript to write a load balancer with OpenResty recently, and World of Warcraft interface code six years ago. :)
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#37I understand that people love programming in classes, but I really want something like a stripped-down ES6. In particular, I want: 1. Lists and objects/dicts only; objects have no prototypes at all; objects have no first-class methods, but they can have functions as member variables, and those functions can close over other data in the object 2. All function and variable declaration is anonymous (as a consequence of…
This is basically Lua, excluding type annotations. Lua's form of OOP is very strange in that methods aren't bound to a parent context, but instead take the object as a value. For example, `object:method()` is the same as `object.method(object)`, and `function object:method()` is the same as `function object.method(self)` - the only difference being calling the function via `object:method()` is a bit more optimized. T…
I forgot to emphasize that I'm particular about syntax. I amended my comment accordingly. I also don't like the global-by-default bit, but maybe my ideal language could be a syntax layer atop Lua?
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#38Hey all, I made MoonScript about 6 years ago. I used it to build a ton of opensource stuff in addition to the company I founded. I use it every day and I'm very happy with how it's turned out. I regret not updating the language more frequently, but I've been busy building a bunch of stuff in it. The biggest open source project is a web framework for Open Resty: https://github.com/leafo/lapis It's used for the followi…
Itch.io looks pretty nice except for the scrollbar on the left, I suggest you to add this in the css to make it look nicer on webkit browsers: https://gist.github.com/Ivanca/95e171e3d575001dd17787ec490c6...
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#39Can this be used instead of Lua with Redis? Is there an example somewhere of that?
Check out https://github.com/jondeandres/moon-redis
Pretty sure he means redis scripting
https://redis.io/commands/eval
Re: MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua
#40Lapis + MoonScript + OpenResty looks like a lot of fun, so I was just starting to get a local environment running for it and immediately ran into the Lua 5.1 and 5.2+ divergence. For someone who has just been a casual observer of the Lua ecosystem over the years, can someone talk about the community's feelings towards that divergence? The OpenResty docs basically state it's not worth the effort to support anything bu…
People expect to use luajit forever.