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Luau is the scripting language creators use in Roblox Studio. It is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua 5.1 . Contributing your Luau scripts for AI training can help enhance Luau-focused AI tools in Studio.
- Metatables
¹ Requires two values with the same metamethod function and...
- Scope
Global Scope. After you declare a global variable or...
- Control Structures
The condition for if statements, while loops, and repeat...
- Operators
An operator is a symbol for performing an operation or...
- Comparison
Roblox uses the Luau programming language. The following...
- Type Coercion
Assignment. Some properties expect certain data types, such...
- Enums
The enumeration data type, or Enum, is a fixed list of...
- Queues
A queue is a linear data structure with a collection of...
- Metatables
Luau is an open-source dialect of Lua used by Roblox as a scripting language. The source code of the language is available under the Expat license. Luau introduces gradual typing support and performance optimizations to Lua, and also aims for backward compatibility with Lua 5.1.
In this update, we continue to improve the overall stability of the new type solver. We're also shipping some early bits of two new features, one of the language and one of the analysis API: user-defined type functions and an incremental typechecking API.
Roblox chose to open-source Luau to foster collaboration within the Roblox community as well as to allow other companies and communities to benefit from the ongoing language and runtime innovation. As a consequence, Luau is now also used by games like Alan Wake 2 and Warframe.
Luau (lowercase u, /ˈlu.aʊ/) is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua. Motivation Around 2006, Roblox started using Lua 5.1 as a scripting language for games.
At the heart of Roblox technology lies Luau, a scripting language derived from Lua 5.1 that is being developed by an internal team of programming language ex... Luau Recap: September & October 2022. November 1, 2022. Luau is our new language that you can read more about at https://luau-lang.org. Semantic Subtyping in Luau. October 31, 2022.
Features. Functions are blocks of code that you can execute multiple times on command. You can also connect them to events or assign them as callbacks. Basic Functions. A function definition includes: The scope of the function (global or local). The function keyword. The name of the function in camelCase.
