I noticed that a lot of the languages in the list aren't being worked on / are archived, so I've added [Unmaintaned] or [Archived] before certain languages.

Unmaintained = hasn't been updated / contributed to for 5 or more years Archived = owner has archived the repository

This PR is in accordance to #33

I've just noticed that Amulet is no longer being maintained and the owner of the Github repo has archived it. Is it okay for Amulet to stay on, or should there be a different section/category called archived languages?

I'm particularly interested in reusing LuaJIT on bytecode level. As far as I can see my Oberon implementation currently seems to be the only one directly compiling to LuaJIT bytecode, i.e. everyone else seems to transpile to Lua source code (maybe there is another language doing this which I missed up to now). The major disadvantage of Lua as an intermediate language is the fact that line numbers reported by the debugger refer to the wrong source file (the intermediate Lua instead of the original source). I implemented a full IDE (https://github.com/rochus-keller/oberon/#oberon-ide-features) which - with a slight modification of LuaJIT - even supports row and column numbers (not only row numbers as with the original Lua engines). I don't see a way how to do this when Lua is the intermediate language. Also worth mentioning that the Oberon code compiled to bytecode runs nearly the same speed as the Oberon to native compiled version and twice as fast as the Oberon to Lua source code transpiled version (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/blob/master/testcases/Hennessy_Results).

For me (and maybe others too) it would be helpful to explicitly track on the list which languages compile to Lua source code or LuaJIT bytecode. For people who would like to implement a bytecode backend you could add https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools and https://github.com/franko/luajit-lang-toolkit. Thanks.

• https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
• https://github.com/roblox-ts/roblox-ts
• https://github.com/ASDAlexander77/TypeScriptLua

PS: Nice project!

There's a Python-to-Lua compiler called python-lua, but it isn't included in this list of Python-to-Lua compilers. Should this compiler be included in the list?

I think Haxe is qualifying for a proper multi paradigm language.

It provides both functional and object oriented features

GADTs, exhaustive pattern matching, global type inference and partial function application are not found in typical OO heavy languages.

https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/language-features.html

@hengestone Was looking around and found candran and hence added it to this list (added it to the unique category).

Sorry if I was supposed to open an issue first.

I am interest in functional language. but i don't know how to build listed project.

I only build Hypatia success. all other falled.

Functional https://amulet.works/ An ML-like functional programming language that transpiles to lua https://github.com/kindl/Hypatia Hypatia, an ML-like language that transpiles to Lua https://github.com/ptol/oczor Haskell-like language that compiles to Lua, Javascript, Emacs lisp and Ruby https://github.com/iitalics/Lua-ML Basic ML language https://github.com/hengestone/pumpkin ML-like language with an experimental Lua back-end https://github.com/minoki/LunarML A Standard ML compiler that produces Lua

Since Amulet was added to the list, it has moved to its own organization, and now has its own website. This PR replaces the link to the old Amulet repository with the URL to the website.

This is neither a completely new language, nor a JS to Lua compiler. Just an alternative syntax with syntaxic sugar that is missing in Lua. https://github.com/saharNooby/lua-js-syntax

Also, other similar projects (not mine) you may be interested in:

• ljs: C Lua VM fork with JS-like syntax.
• jual: C Lua VM fork with JS-like syntax that is a ECMAScript subset.
• Killa: C Lua VM fork with JS-like syntax.

Hey there, I was looking for Javascript and/or Typescript compilers when I found this list.

Some of the compilers linked here are returning 404. I cant find if they were moved to somewhere or just deleted.

• https://github.com/josevalim/luascript
• https://github.com/freedot/tstolua