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MoonScript

MoonScript

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MoonScript is a programmer friendly language that compiles into Lua. It gives you the power of the fastest scripting language combined with a rich set of features. It runs on Lua 5.1 and above, including alternative runtimes like LuaJIT.

See https://moonscript.org.

Online demo/compiler at https://moonscript.org/compiler.

Join Our Community

We just created a Discord for those interested in MoonScript. You can join us here: https://discord.gg/Y75ZXrD

Running Tests

Tests are written in MoonScript and use Busted. In order to run the tests you must have MoonScript and Loadkit installed.

To run tests, execute from the root directory:

busted

Writing specs is a bit more complicated. Check out the spec writing guide.

Binaries

Precompiled versions of MoonScript are provided for Windows. You can find them in the GitHub releases page. (Scroll down to the win32- tags.

The build code can be found in the binaries branch

Editor Support

License (MIT)

Copyright (C) 2020 by Leaf Corcoran

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.