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Honestly, except for some of the syntactic quirks, this looks fabulous.

I definitely think there's a need and space for type-safe embeddable scripting languages like this. Lua usually dominates this space but the lack of type-safety always kept me from adopting it wholeheartedly.

With Zig also in the picture, I can totally imagine an ecosystem that uses something like Buzz for scripting the high level parts of an application, Zig for the lower level performance critical stuff, and leveraging interop with the vast abundance of C libraries out there.




If you need Lua but also type-safety, how about Luau [1] then?

[1] https://luau-lang.org/


There’s also Teal, a typed dialect in Lua, written in plain Lua: https://github.com/teal-language/tl


Wow, this looks great. With gradual typing too! Helps slowly port existing Lua projects over. Thanks for linking to this.


You might find https://nelua.io interesting.




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