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by giraffe_lady 427 days ago
I would love to see a stripped back ML-style language that targets lua, just something like ocaml's type system and exhaustive pattern match right on top would be all I need. There have been a few attempts but nothing I know of that got usably far and is maintained.

There might be a way to get standard ML to output lua or something but I'm not that familiar with it. I think it would be an incredible fit for a third backend for gleam, but they say they aren't adding any more beyond erlang and js.
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Vedor 427 days ago
I think that LunarML [1] could fit this niche quite well. It's a StandardML compiler that targets Lua. I can't tell much more as I've only played with it a little and don't have much experience with ML languages in general, but it looks promising.

[1] https://github.com/minoki/LunarML

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HexDecOctBin 427 days ago
You might be able to repurpose CSharp.lua[1] to compile F#

[1] https://github.com/yanghuan/CSharp.lua

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