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## What is Luau? ## What is Luau?
Luau is a Lua derivative, which is fast, small and gradually typed, as described on their website. Luau was created at Roblox as a scalable alternative to Lua to run millions of times a day, on both clients and servers. It has generally been pushed aside as a “lego game language”, simply due to its ties to the Roblox platform, as Roblox has generally been tied to inexperienced and young game developers. Luau’s potential as a well-designed scripting language often goes unnoticed. In this blog post, I will attempt to compare Luau with JavaScript and hopefully showcase some of the benefits of Luau. Luau is a Lua derivative, which is fast, small and gradually typed, as described on their website. Luau was created at Roblox as a scalable alternative to Lua to run millions of times a day, on both clients and servers. It has also been adopted by companies like Yelp for [their backend infrastructure](https://github.com/Yelp/casper). It has generally been pushed aside as a “lego game language”, simply due to its ties to the Roblox platform, as Roblox has generally been tied to inexperienced and young game developers. Luau’s potential as a well-designed scripting language often goes unnoticed. In this blog post, I will attempt to compare Luau with JavaScript and hopefully showcase some of the benefits of Luau.
Luau has significantly diverged from Lua, with many performance improvements (including a separate bytecode format and compiler), type support, standard APIs like buffers, require aliases, and a lot more. Furthermore, Lua generally follows the ideology of “if it can be implemented in pure-lua, it should be, and doesn’t belong within the standard library”, which Luau does not follow much. Luau has significantly diverged from Lua, with many performance improvements (including a separate bytecode format and compiler), type support, standard APIs like buffers, require aliases, and a lot more. Furthermore, Lua generally follows the ideology of “if it can be implemented in pure-lua, it should be, and doesn’t belong within the standard library”, which Luau does not follow much.