lua

The LuaJIT NYI That Silently Poisoned an Unrelated Hot Loop https://lobste.rs/s/qls9sm #lua #performance
https://streamhpc.com/blog/2026-08-05/the-luajit-nyi-that-silently-poisoned-an-unrelated-hot-loop/

Lunacy - Lua 5.1 interpreter with Lazy Basic Block Versioning and JIT https://lobste.rs/s/l6egm2 #compilers #lua
https://redvice.org/2026/lunacy/

It's been only four weeks and I really love using mise-en-place by @jdx So far I've used it for (chronologically):

- switching between #Zig versions, I liked it more than the dedicated anyzig
- #Python venv activation – it's silly but feels so good, and collaborates with uv
- ensuring I have the right language server and formatter for a project, be it #Lua, #TypeScript, and trying out various options for Python
- setting LANG="C.UTF-8" only in the specific project folder because #Ansible refused to work with Polish...

The final boss was getting a really comfortable Tree-sitter setup: get the #Rust CLI, write grammar in #JavaScript, re-generate and run tests on source change as a mise Task. And then I only cloned the repo on another machine and was ready to go!

This post was written as a more cultured outlet for my excitement instead of aggresively committing mise.toml into every repository I touch

Making Lua Compatible With What? via @chrislowis https://lobste.rs/s/vsrae3 #culture #lua
https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/compatibility-with-who.html

this is so cool! I ported to #webxdc TIC-80 #fantasy #computer for making, playing and sharing tiny #games

you can import/export files with add/get commands!

with this you can create #retro games in #lua, #fennel, #python, #ruby, #javascript etc and play/share them with friends as in-chat apps in #DeltaChat / #ArcaneChat

I would like to expose the webxdc API to TIC-80 games so they can do networking/multiplayer and send in-chat messages

#fantasyconsole #console #retrogaming #tic80 #pico8

#lua

Tiny-Lua-Compiler: Possibly the smallest Lua compiler ever https://lobste.rs/s/np3vpy #compilers #lua
https://github.com/bytexenon/Tiny-Lua-Compiler

Thanks to Lua with batteries included and mise-en-place I now have automatic setup for general-purpose scripting in #Lua. I just needed to learn how to set the package search path.

#TIL

Bicho full #gameplay up to where I got with the project, for now.

#GameDev #Games #FOSSGames #PixelArt #TIC80 #Lua

Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language https://lobste.rs/s/v34c5h #lua #practices
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/gemlog/lua-as-a-practical-soft-bedrock-language.gmi

I just spent a half-hour hacking in the #Neovide (GUI version of #neovim) #Lua config file, and I have figured out abbreviations and custom keymapping, which means I can move my "production" editing from #gVim to Neovide with a clean Lua config file.

Do I need to move away from gVim/#Vim? I'm not sure, but we're in this game to try new things, right?

Is it worth it to move from Vimscript to Lua?

Defold 1.12.2 has been released!

✨ Control ParticleFX emitters in runtime
🖼️ Custom Editor UI now with images
⚡️ Faster Editor for large projects
🎮 3D playground sample
🧩 Custom vertex attribute data for models
🧵 Support for more than 8 vertex stream
🗂️ “New…” menu in Asset Browser
🔤 Distance field fonts noticeably sharper in Editor
🧷 Quality-of-life fixes and many, many more!

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-2-has-been-released/82464

Featured: Tiny World by Dragosha

#MadeWithDefold #Defold #gameengine #gamedev #indiedev #lua

Lute: a standalone runtime for Luau https://lobste.rs/s/jzuifo #lua
https://lute.luau.org

Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine https://lobste.rs/s/ukar7d #lua #web
https://riki.house/lua-html

New Blogpost I wrote in the week about my search for a new "Forever Language"

https://codedawa.dev/posts/programming_language_psychosis/

#odin #swift #zig #rust #lua #programming

Usagi Engine - Rapid 2D Game Prototyping via @andrew_chou https://lobste.rs/s/y3eiv5 #games #lua
https://usagiengine.com/

The Lua community needs to learn to move on - hisham.hm https://lobste.rs/s/t7wzko #lua
https://hisham.hm/2026/08/04/the-lua-community-needs-to-learn-to-move-on/

Desde ontem (desde sempre, a bem da verdade) a #Lua tá espetaculosa no céu!

#moon #fullmoon #LuaCheia

Development of my personal FreeBSD installer keeps moving forward!

Lots of new ideas and features are currently in the works: the out-of-the-box GUI experience, completion of the Simple and Expert installation modes, automatic hardware detection and configuration (now also GPU support as well).

I'll be publishing a new blog post soon with more details. Stay tuned! 😄

#FreeBSD #BSD #OpenSource #FOSS #UNIX #Coding #Programming #SysAdmin #DevOps #DesktopBSD #Tech #OSS #Lua

log is non-monotonous in PHP and Lua via @goldstein https://lobste.rs/s/pa54mh #lua #math #php
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/log-is-non-monotonous-in-php-and-lua/

Lua-async https://lobste.rs/s/r58i7h #lua #vim
https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua-async/