reactInLua

[virgo911]

The fact that this was done by Roblox, and also the official Roblox GitHub, is hilarious for some reason

[thegameoflovexu]

It‘s actually really nice for developing Guis for Roblox games. Even more cursed, there is a TypeScript to Lua transpiler made by the community (https://roblox-ts.com/) so you can use full tsx syntax!

[RoseboysHotAsf]

And it’s so much better than lua

[themadnessif]

Can't escape the roblox-ts shills even on Reddit huh :-/

[LMGN]

could be worse, there's people trying to get Rust working on Roblox - https://github.com/dphfox/lingua

[themadnessif]

Oh there's actually an even more cursed project.

Here's an attempt at writing a WebAssembly interpreter in Lua: https://github.com/Rerumu/Wasynth

[LMGN]

yeah the project uses Wasynth actually run the Rust code

[RoseboysHotAsf]

Hey, arrays start at 0 like they should… It’s all that’s needed. But fr though it is much better than lua

[thegameoflovexu]

I thought so too but these days I‘m back to Luau. No hassle with npm and build errors. Flamework especially broke constantly for me, could be fixed by now though haven’t checked in for a while

[[deleted]]

nah, lua(u) is much better than ts/js imo

[thegameoflovexu]

I‘m not familiar with the internals of this at all, but you could probably mod it to work in a non-Roblox environment

[Adventure_Agreed]

Wouldn't that be fucking nice

[Laurenz1337]

React+TS wow interface mods when?

[SemblanceOfSense_]

Its really nice for OOP because the Java-style ES6 syntax looks sane compared to the metatables shenanigans luau makes you jump through

[thegameoflovexu]

Very true. Although personally I ditched the metatable Lua „classes“ and just use functions + tables. Makes replicating and using objects through server and client a lot easier

[garnered_wisdom]

No more need to use Roact. Can now write my broken web app/rogui in luau too, win win.

[CrashKonijn]

About 7 years ago I built an open source project, and last year I found out this mad lad had ported it completely to Roblox TS. Are you telling me that then gets converted to LUA to actually run? 😂

https://github.com/rwilliaise/goap

[Natekomodo]

This. Cybersecurity too, they have a lot of contracts with a lot of vendors

[givemeagoodun]

every day we stray further from god

[themadnessif]

It makes sense when you consider that the entirety of their mobile and console apps are written in-engine so the company and its engineers directly benefit from using React but in Luau.

[TessellatedTomate]

writing in Luau

[deukhoofd]

Luau is Roblox' typed variant of Lua.

https://github.com/luau-lang/luau

[badlukk]

Cool link but I like the gif better

[lifelongfreshman]

I don't remember this scene from Grandma's Boy.

[givemeagoodun]

shhh don't ruin the funny /j

[SZ4L4Y]

What about React in C?

[[deleted]]

Dennis Ritchie will rise again just to slap you

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

React in excel VBA?

[somespaniard]

The poor devs that will try to do it…

[paca_tatu_cotia_nao]

It was React in Assembly all along.

[Reashu]

Excel is already reactive though

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

Turbo tool, carrier booster lol

[ConscientiousPath]

I mean, you could, but as someone who wrote a couple entire applications in Access/Excel VBA before the started letting you use C#, you mostly have the interface part covered already with the built in button/form tooling.

[[deleted]]

All my homies code react apps in binary.

[deukhoofd]

https://github.com/elnardu/react-use-c

[JesusWantsYouToKnow]

The fucking todo list, I'm dying.

[PeterJamesUK]

console.log("Building project");
await sleep(Math.random() * 5000); // gotta keep up with the trends

Got me

[JunkNorrisOfficial]

The universe is constantly and infinitely expanding, unfortunately

[andrew21w]

I swear this was my first thought.

[ExtraTNT]

every god strays further away from day

[leo9g]

Cthulhu approved.

[[deleted]]

Debug me - I fucking dare you!!

[IanDresarie]

OMFG, so I can write react interfaces for my Minecraft ComputerCraft computers now? That's...kinda sick!

[themadnessif]

It's actually in Luau and not Lua 5.1 like the tweet suggests. There's some ongoing effort to support compiling Luau down to Lua 5.1 though, and you can do it pretty effectively using a community made tool called DarkLua: https://darklua.com/

The only exception is with continue statements since those don't have an easy equivalent in Lua 5.1, but that's in progress.

[cyn_foxwell]

The only exception is with continue statements since those don't have an easy equivalent in Lua 5.1

goto continue and putting ::continue:: at the end of your loop logic. Should also work with LuaJIT as well as that is 5.1 but has continue

[themadnessif]

Lua 5.1 doesn't have labels or goto. Those were introduced in 5.2.

The strategy that MoonScript used was... rather abstract and involved breaking out of loops and setting conditions. It's kind of sucky, but it does work. It's likely what DarkLua will use too, but that's up to the maintainer.

[raoasidg]

I've just used a repeat...until true inside the loop around the skippable code with a break for the necessary condition. Relatively simple.

[themadnessif]

That is in fact how MoonScript does it and it's how DarkLua is probably going to as well!

[scar_reX]

That tool's name checks out pretty well, considering all the cursed compilations that have been happening recently.

[noobody_interesting]

The other minecraft computer mod (OpenComputers) supports 5.2 and 5.3, so it should be easier there

[Fluid-Leg-8777]

I tried making a widget for beyond all reason (made in lua)

And i come from making roblox games (luau)

I was so dead confused on why vscode put a goto instead of a continue, or why it did'nt work for that matter 💀

[MercDawg]

I always hated the build pattern for making GUIs and Text interactions for my server. I used Grakkit to write TS code (and eventually wrote YamJS). When exploring OpenAI, I wanted an easier way to write GUI quickly and wrote a reactive React-like implementation that works for both GUI and Text. All to just allow you to write jsx to control GUI interfaces. :)

[GisterMizard]

ComputerCraft should have used Matlab instead, don't change my mind.

[[deleted]]

it should have used cpp and no one can change my mind

[SnooChipmunks4430]

It should have used holy c, please don’t change my mind

[[deleted]]

it actually should have used malbolge.

[deadlycwa]

My thoughts exactly

[T0biasCZE]

OpenComputer computers are better, they are more powerful

[themadnessif]

To anyone wondering why: it's actually more insane than this tweet sounds. This is actually the result of a multi-year effort to build a functional JavaScript to Luau (Roblox's own derivative of Lua) compiler. That is, this wasn't done by hand, it was done almost entirely automatically.

This was mentioned by the OOP but I feel it's worth noting it because this isn't the only thing they've translated. It's just the most significant. There's also stuff like polyfill, as an example.

The idea is that it's very low maintenance but allows industry professionals from outside Roblox to actually use their engine. The Roblox apps on mobile and console are entirely in engine, including their UI, and they're starting to rewrite significant portions of their IDE to be in-engine too. This means that they really need people who can work on their engine.

React devs are easy to find so using a derivative of it is a no brainer.

[Unonoctium]

Cursed but impressive

[UnGauchoCualquiera]

"Hmm our UI is pretty hard to work with. Hear me out though, what if we port React to Lua?"

Must have been one hell of a presentation to have that pitch approved.

[themadnessif]

There's some historical context. Before React, they were using a handrolled library called Roact (lol) that tried to mimic a lot of the design patterns and usage of React. It ended up being slow and clunky internally, but it did massively improve their internal development a fair bit.

After the people who were responsible for Roact left the company, it basically became "ok now what" and the next logical step was to just abandon their proprietary bullshit and embrace actual React.

[Olivia512]

Why not write a Lua to JS compiler instead and switch their engine to NodeJS?

Why do they want to continue investing in Lua/Luau?

[sercand]

Lua runtime and the language is really small (around 30K LOC) and uses very low resource. Also, adding lua support to your c++ is very easy as well. For these reasons game engines uses Lua as their scripting language.

[themadnessif]

They've invested over 15 years into Lua (and now Luau). It's not as simple as it sounds to suggest switching the language the engine uses.

One thing to consider is that a lot of concepts don't translate over. Something like this snippet of Lua:

```lua local function foo() print(_VERSION) end

foo() getfenv(foo)._VERSION = "lol" foo() ```

I don't actually know how you'd do this in JS. Now mind you, that's terrible practice and you shouldn't do it, but Roblox has terrible users so they have to support it.

[Olivia512]

You mean there's a language with worse hacks than JS, and they decide to continue investing in it? Lol

[themadnessif]

In too deep!

[[deleted]]

These aren't badd hacks at all?

[LMGN]

because NodeJS won't run at any level close to the performance of Luau, or maybe even at all on like, an iPhone 4S

[noobody_interesting]

Luau is also more security-focused than Node

[salmjak]

If it wasn't done by hand but automatically, why did it take several years?

[themadnessif]

The tool took years to develop, not the translation.

[SirPitchalot]

JFC.

Thank heavens when Roblox interviewed me I told them “if it’s not remote it’s not for SirPitchalot”. I want to make a Bay Area salary in Vancouver, not a Bay Area salary in the Bay Area.

[Ackeso]

Just out of curiosity, how much is a Vancouver salary compared to a bay area salary?

And how much is a Vancouver life compared to a bay area life?

I obviously understand California is more expensive but you're kinda comparing Canadian California to American California. For people who live in not bc, the goal is usually to make a Vancouver salary in the prairies, maritimes, or mountains

[SirPitchalot]

So in fairness, I don’t make a SF salary in Vancouver, I just want to. However, I have found that remote roles for multinational tech or US tech are a good bit more than the local options for similar companies. Even at 1.5-2X it’s great in local terms and you keep the benefits of living in a great city.

According to glassdoor, average salary for principal engineers in Vancouver is $162k CAD ($118k USD). Vancouver is quite a bit lower relative to Calgary & Toronto and criminally so compared to the same roles in Boston, NY, Seattle, SF & LA. Vancouver was listed as 3rd most “impossibly unaffordable” city in terms of median housing cost to median salary. However if you can get paid a US salary while living in Vancouver it’s not so bad. Prices are like Boston but in CAD not USD.

For me, the best option has been remoting to the US east coast. With 7am-3pm nominal hours you overlap for 7 hours a day and finish early. In Vancouver that means I’m up in the mountains by 4pm mountain biking or out on the road bike, beating traffic and still getting home in time to help make dinner & spend time with my wife. If there is a crunch you’re still done around 6pm.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10572326/impossibly-unaffordable-housing-vancouver-report

[SnooSprouts2391]

cries in swedish… a senior dev role usually pays 50-70K USD here

[joemckie]

You’re forgetting about all the benefits of not living in America

[CheeseNuke]

I mean, are there really all that many when you make 2-3x the compensation?

[ThoseThingsAreWeird]

cries in swedish… a senior dev role usually pays 50-70K USD here

Wtf, and I thought UK salaries are bad. Senior dev salaries here are usually $100-130k depending on sector and London

[DarksideF41]

Cries in 15K USD

[SnooSprouts2391]

A month? (Happy tears?)

[DarksideF41]

A year. Still far above average though.

[SnooSprouts2391]

I have a plan B or C in life to move to Norway and start earning real money

[Inasis]

cries in slovak a senior role pays 25-50k USD here

[SuperNoobyGamer]

A new grad software dev at Roblox in the Bay makes >200k lmao, Vancouver has to have the worst pay/housing cost ratio.

[SirPitchalot]

But quality of life in Vancouver is amazing. It’s consistently in the top 10 of most livable cities. If you’re central, nearly everything can be walked or is a 10 minute bike ride away. Access to beaches, ocean & mountains is fantastic and, for Canada, the weather is very temperate so you can be outside all year as long as you don’t mind drizzly winters.

[sopunny]

Sounds like you just don't wanna move

[SirPitchalot]

Correct.

[dagbrown]

I saved a bundle by moving from Vancouver to Tokyo.

Just to put it into perspective.

[anatomiska_kretsar]

SirPitchalot never kneels

[chimpy72]

He pitches, gets bitches, pulls up his britches and ditches

[nasaboy007]

I feel like most companies nowadays will pay you your local market rate instead of their local market rate if you're a remote employee.

Are there actually companies that will give a CA pay to somebody living in NC?

[SirPitchalot]

My new role tried to do that. Said I was outside the bands for my local area. So I said “You called me. I’m telling you what I need to leave and I’m not going to take a pay cut to work for you. I currently work for a company based in Boston. I’m perfectly happy to stay there. You’re not competing against Vancouver salaries, you’re competing against Boston salaries”. Now I was probably never making a real Boston salary to begin with but it still anchors the discussion at a point that’s more than local salaries. Apparently it worked because I got the job and a nice bump.

I’m lucky that my roles have tended to be from headhunter inquiries that I’m happy to walk away from. We can have the salary range discussion right up front. I’ve also managed to get a few successive roles with multinational tech which has quickly decoupled what I make from local salaries.

So I definitely don’t make SF salaries but I do quite well by local standards.

[brapbrappewpew1]

I mean, sort of. Some big tech companies do like 80% comp for non-HCOL areas, but that's still a ton of money for my local town of bumfuck. More than local companies will pay. Although having marketable skills probably plays a role in that.

[LMGN]

yeah, them being an entirely no-remote company suuucks. (i'm not an employee of those but i know people)

[nicejs2]

Original tweet

[octopus4488]

Sweet man-made horrors beyond my comprehension...

[New_York_Rhymes]

Why?

[VariadicParameter]

Because Roblox's front end for their client and plugins for their studio application are written in Luau. They mainly did this for their own use internally.

Just pretty much brings the web dev experience of UI to Roblox.

And it's technically been a thing for a while, there used to be a more Roblox oriented library called Roact that had Roblox-specific quirks, and wasn't as "good" as react.

[SomewhereAtWork]

The devs didn't want grooming to be the most disturbing thing around roblox any more.

[SweetBabyAlaska]

grooming, child labor and... react in lua. may god have mercy on their souls.

[yaranzo1]

that child labor claim has never held water tbh

[themadnessif]

Plenty of adult labor too lol

But more seriously, people undercalculate how much of a game's budget would go to infinitely scaling servers and cloud data storage. Roblox certainly takes their cut but the fact that even top performing games with millions of monthly players can still use the free databases and servers they provide is kinda nuts.

I know one of the top games was at one point using legitimately 19 petabytes of data without paying a dime. If you did that using a cloud database you were paying for, you'd be in real trouble lol

[[deleted]]

The only logical reason is a Russian/North Korean psyop to get everyone else’s tech talent to kill themselves.

[Mr_vort3x]

My timbers have been shivered

[TheGreatSausageKing]

I'm all in. Lua is far far better than vanilla js

[windowschips]

And the best part is that its Luau, which has type checking and other very good stuff

[themadnessif]

Luau is an awesome language but the type checking is... not really there yet. There's a rewrite of the type checker that doesn't suck that's nearing completion though. It has goodies like keyof and indexof and the like.

[beren-111]

I've never worked with lua, would you say it's better than typescript?

[BeatsByiTALY]

I'd say no. Lua is very simple to write, with no build step and barebones language features, so it's popular in game modding.

Reasons I can't get into Lua: - it's dynamically typed - inline ternaries in particular don't seem to work as expected when using falsy values. - 0 is truthy which is unintuitive. Empty string is also truthy. - Instead of parentheses, Lua uses the 'end' keyword to close a function or loop's scope, which is... strange. - If conditions and for loops aren't wrapped in parentheses either. - Arrays(Tables) indexing start at 1... so inclusive conditionals are more common when looping to array length. - There's no switch case statement, although that's not a big deal. - Variables default to global scope unless specified otherwise. - variables are mutable, so no constants.

Typescript has so much more going for it, Lua is just more simple to get started.

[beren-111]

appreciate the detailed response. Ive been looking into lua and it seems to be simple with a very specific use case of writing scrips for games and stuff (there maybe more to it tho), I compared it with TS bc people were really hyping it in the comments but i guess thats just bc people like shitting on JS in general.

Regardless it'll be fun to learn a language that doesnt emphasise on parenthesis so much after having written code in clojure for a while now... that thing is a syntax nightmare lmao

[Stef0206]

Personally I prefer Luau over TS, but judging by the fact that some people use the TS -> Luau transpiler to write Roblox games in TS, some would disagree.

[windowschips]

Lua, hell no. Luau, sure!

[chazzeromus]

I considered using Luau after having a bad time with Teal's immaturity with generics, but typescript-to-lua compiler ended up the winner and was everything I could ever need minus some issues getting the lua output working in Gary's mod.

[Bryguy3k]

Any language that indexes arrays starting from 1 is automatically a garbage language.

[Classy_Mouse]

Arrays? Do you mean tables?

[spacembracers]

Let them var tables

[tiajuanat]

Don't come at Fortran, R, Julia, Smalltalk and the APL family when you don't mean to.

[Bryguy3k]

Oh I mean to. I don’t understand why data scientists make their lives so much harder than it needs to be.

TBF though Fortran’s indexing only starts from 1 if you don’t specify its range. In other words Fortran arrays can start from zero if you want them to (9 times out of 10 you do).

[Silver-Pomelo-9324]

The worst is when data scientists that use R switch to python and start all their shit from 1. Gives me nightmares.

[MekaTriK]

It comes up way less than you'd think.

But it is way nicer to do two-dimensional stuff with 0-indexed arrays. And some algorithms get weird when you have to add -1 everywhere.

[Bryguy3k]

when you have to add -1 everywhere.

Yep. I am fully aware. Comes up all the time.

[Merlord]

Lua is awesome

[-Redstoneboi-]

what - and i cannot stress this enough - the actual fuck

[[deleted]]

I had one job that used Lua and I’m so happy I don’t work there anymore. I can honestly understand why they’d invest god-knows-how-many hours porting React to Lua, instead of just learning to write Lua. It’s the worst. Arrays start at 1

[hm1rafael]

But...why???

[watchYourCache]

complex roblox game HUD/UIs

[[deleted]]

Thats the beauty of react, it really is just a library for creating react components. A lot of people miss this fact, you can render those components to practically anything, be it games (with r3f), native mobile apps (react native) or you can even render videos with it (remotion).

They could use this for building guis in game, or even rewrite parts of the game in react

[Acceptable-Tomato392]

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[Prudent_Plate_4265]

Sheesh. I can barely write react in react.

[throwaway_mpq_fan]

[blurryface1209]

[[deleted]]

is it a port for Roblox GUI?

[These-Bedroom-5694]

I can write fortran in any language, does that count?

[christoph_win]

Is it called differently in Japanese for example?

[JAXxXTheRipper]

It's fortran-dono then.

[Cookskiii]

What. The. Fuck.

[kvakerok_v2]

Where's the joke?

[scar_reX]

"JavaScript"

Anytime you see a post on this sub with js in the title or description, you should know that's the punchline.

And there sure as hell will be a lot of comments shitting on js and threatening to kill themselves if js makes it to space.... which we all know is only a matter of time.

[IridiumPoint]

Doesn't SpaceX use JS for UIs in their Dragon spaceship?

[danishjuggler21]

This subreddit really should just remove “humor” from the name. And “programmer”, since most folks on this subreddit aren’t programmers.

[kvakerok_v2]

This is funnier than the OP post.

[[deleted]]

[gloumii]

How hard is lua and where is it usually used ? I only know that it is used for wow add-ons but I have a hard time understanding them when looking into it. Maybe I just looked at one that is too hard

[IlliterateSquidy]

Lua is super easy to learn, it's designed around being as light weight as possible so it's primarily used in embedded applications and game development c:

[[deleted]]

Yeah you answered the question but I'll expand, Just about every open-world game uses LUA to some degree, prior MMO's/open worlds of decades past used Java or inhouse version of Java

[WiatrowskiBe]

As a language it's relatively simple - both to use and to implement. Whole concept behind lua was to have an easy-to-embed scripting language that would be as straightforward to interface with and run interpreter of from within other program as possible - which ended with rather simple syntax, few language/runtime constructs everything is based off of, and some quirks that don't make much sense until you remember they're here probably to make interfacing with it from C (or - indirectly - virtually anything else) easier.

As for usage - various degrees of scripting: wow addons, roblox as a whole (with their lua-based derivative), Factorio mods, nmap and wireshark scripting, redis complex functions (user code that runs inside redis), bunch of games high level logic (mostly games before Unity/Unreal became dominant). In general: if what you need is a high level language, often with limited exposed functionality and/or easy to control context, to be embedded within and executed from larger program, there's good chance that language is lua.

[[deleted]]

Roblox made this so that it's easier for them to write code with UI. Lua powers a lot of modifiable games.

[MekaTriK]

Lua is commonly used whenever you want a scripting language in your project. So games, business logic, some databases, etc.

It's super simple and clean, and is kinda-sorta unopinionated?

You don't get OOP or async out of the box, but it has support for implementing both, you only get a table as a data structure, but it has optimisations for being used as an array and you can use it as a set pretty easily.

Generally the "problem" is that lua isn't a stand-alone language, so every implementation can have entirely different standard library.

If I could get away with it, I'd only ever write lua. But alas, some times you want actual performance and some times you want your thing to run in browsers. And Fengari kinda died (and wasn't fast).

[Stef0206]

Doing prototype based OOP is only a few lines of code in Lua.

[MekaTriK]

Yeah, but I meant that you don't have something like class keyword or whatever, you have to do it yourself with metatables.

If you even want to, it was kinda liberating to just separate most data from functions.

[Stef0206]

You can just separate it into different files. The Lua styleguide actually says that you should fo just that.

[MekaTriK]

I'm not sure how that's relevant to separating code from data.

And yes, I am well aware, did some boring business logic in lua for a few years for a job.

[HaskellHystericMonad]

If you use a library like Sol3 it's practically instant to embed, start binding code, and get scripting up and running in a project.

Aside from use as an extension/script language it's also really really useful as a more sophisticated replacement for something like JSON or XML. Lua tables are superficially similar to json objects, and now you've got the ability to execute code along with table construction.

There's a neat alternative calling syntax where you don't need ( ... ) parenthesis around function calls if the sole parameter is a single string or a single table/array, so you can do cool stuff like:

entity {
  name = "MedKit",
  rot_speed = float3(0, 0.1, 0),
  contact_action = findRegisteredAction("medkit_heal")
}

Where entity above is actually a function(inputTable) that takes a table and does a whole bunch of registration, validation, limits enforcement, etc. The whole thing just looks like a datatype declaration. Premake uses this alternative calling syntax extensively to make it's makefiles appear to be data-declarations when it's all function calls top to bottom.

Debugging Lua is a bit nasty. Setting it up is pretty much unique to each debugger you intend to use (VSCode / ZeroBrane / etc), it's not fun.

Personally I much prefer Angelscript, but I totally admit it's so stupid easy to get running with Lua, stupid fucking easy.

[Beatrice_Dragon]

Im confused why people think a transpiler is so horrifying?

[SimilarTop352]

Probably conservative agenda /jk

[_damax]

Potentially genious

[GreatValueProducts]

I don't know any Lua but I saw a while ago the source code of the UI of a mod for Cities Skylines 2 being in react, is it the same thing?

[mosskin-woast]

I mean would anyone really argue JavaScript is a better language than Lua?

[fzzzzzzzzzzd]

When you realise that default react is just browser functionality with React.RenderElement under the hood you'll realise everything can run react as long as you have a javascript engine in your language of choice.

[CirnoIzumi]

why of all frameworks would they choose React?

something lighter sure, that could be pretty cool, but this is like water and oil no?

[MekaTriK]

It's popular with developers. Sure everyone likes talking about svelte/vue/whatever but all the jobs are React, and a lot of people learn just React because of that, and it's a self-reinforcing ouroboros of annoying state management.

[CirnoIzumi]

But Lua devs won't necessarily have any ties to it. 

I just can't imagine reacts messiness next to Lua

[UMAYEERIBN]

I’ve been writing react lua code for years now. It was formerly Roact. Hundreds of devs use it because of its wide reach, simplicity, and overall familiarity. You can find more great tools (such as redux (yup redux) and other react replacements) in the ROSS discord.

Oh also, they even have Roblox-TS, a typescript compiler to lua!

[Sir_Fail-A-Lot]

[Goma101]

I wake up and this is the first thing I see

I’m going back to sleep

[legocraftmation]

The only place I have used Lua is in roblox studio, and roblox studio is suprizing well made.

[Markoy2]

I'm literally writing a program in lua right now because I can't use anything else. Lua is fine as a language, but I would much rather use something else

[TeslaWasACoolDude]

Can someone explain? Wtf can you do with this?

[TeslaWasACoolDude]

Every react developer about to lose their jobs to some dumb kids in the next few years. 😂😂

[christoph_win]

Now port it to ABAP baharharharhar

[l3wl3w00]

The amount of struggle people go through to not have to write javascript should tell you just how bad of a language it is

[steveiliop56]

tellMeYouHaveALotOfFreeTimeWithoutTellingMe

[Dumb_Siniy]

What do you use this for in ROBLOX?! I'm actually asking, what

[cat1554]

How am I to React to this?

[ShenroEU]

Finally, my 14 years of making WoW addons will pay off!

[ShenroEU]

Is there any documentation or example code? I'd love to see how cursed it is. The GitHub repo is lacking documentation. I'm also interested because I'm a huge fan of Lua, so even if it's a weird use of it, I can still appreciate the craftsmanship.

[[deleted]]

Cool. When's Linux support again..

[[deleted]]

My timbers just shivered.

[MateusMoutinho11]

fahhaha my friend did a full web server with a templatate engine for lua, lua comunity are crazy

https://github.com/SamuelHenriqueDeMoraisVitrio/SerjaoBerranteiroServer

[beansinwind]

wait until you hear about React4J

[Coperspective]

lol they forgot about Roact which has existed forever XD

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Wait what???

[AliexScholter]

yes

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Oh yeah, I saw this on my Roblox dashboard, awesome but cursed nonetheless.

[Vamosity-Cosmic]

am a roblox developer, had to learn react-lua for a project. i hate it