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Comment by hipadev23

1 year ago

Luau [1] developed by Roblox is a backwards-compatible fork of Lua 5.1 with some very significant improvements to speed and QoL [2]. It also mostly alleviates the nil-terminated array problem.

[1] https://github.com/luau-lang/luau

[2] https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/tree/master/docs

Happy to see Luau is mentioned!

Its greatest improvement over vanilla Lua is better sandboxing. Lua is just pain in the ass to embed safely. So many footguns.