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I made JSX for Lua

by bvisness on 12/27/23, 10:17 PM with 4 comments

• by eterps on 12/28/23, 9:56 AM

  So we have JSX-like language support for:

  - Javascript / Typescript

  - Lua (this)

  - Go ( https://templ.guide )

  - Ruby ( https://github.com/camertron/rux )

  Any others?

• by aziis98 on 12/28/23, 9:57 AM

  Hi, saw the post on Lobster [1] but didn't have an account there even if that post was more active.

  I'm sure it was fun porting the Lua parser to Go and all but I wanted to let you know that Lua is very powerful on its own for making very nice DSLs, for example it can be used to make an HTML Builder DSL akin to JSX within the language itself (and by the way I think it's far more readable than JSX or XML) [2] and also some build tools use it as a base language [3]

  [1]: https://lobste.rs/s/oubncm/i_made_jsx_for_lua_because_i_hate...

  [2]: https://leafo.net/guides/dsl-in-lua.html

  [3]: https://xmake.io/#/getting_started