MoonScript v0.2.0 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: MoonScript v0.2.0 Released

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Post by leafo » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 6:47 PM UTC

LeafStorm wrote: post #10

While some of the features MoonScript provides are very interesting, I'm not sure it's really needed as much for Lua as CoffeeScript is for JavaScript - Lua is a rather nice language on its own.

Lua is actually pretty verbose. The MoonScript codebase is about 1700 lines of MoonScript and it compiles up to 3k lines of Lua (and that's without whitespace and comments)

Things like classes, comprehensions, and other syntactic sugar really do help with writing concise and easy to read programs.

Re: MoonScript v0.2.0 Released

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Post by evanlong » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 7:43 PM UTC

THE FOUNDER OF APEDICK.COM IS AT IT AGAIN

Re: MoonScript v0.2.0 Released

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Post by keyle » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 8:23 AM UTC

roestava wrote: post #6

keyle wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I meant exactly that - do we know of any other languages than "Coffeescript"ish languages that convert to either javascript or lua? - thanks

Yes, Dart. It's a Google sponsored language that's shaping up great. http://www.dartlang.org/ Dart goes beyond what CoffeeScript offers. For instance, Dart can use a lot of library code and try to produce a final script that ships only the methods your program uses. Dart has many parts to it. There's a Dart Editor that uses Eclipse as a foundation but actually strives to be a lightweight editor. The Dart compiler shi…

I'm sorry, do you work for google? You sound like you're selling it to us.