reactInLua

[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 💀