What's Next for Teal, the typed dialect of Lua - FOSDEM 2021

This is my talk about the latest updates on the Teal programming language, as well as my thoughts for the future of the project.

This is my third talk on Teal at FOSDEM, here are the other ones:

"Minimalism versus Types"

"Minimalistic typed Lua is here"

[rhy_rhy_rhy]

thanks for the talks! not only is it interesting to see the process behind tackling something as counter intuitive as typing lua, but it's fascinating to get a look into the kinds of things you have on your mind, as the years progress and as the project grows from conceptual to implemented to established.

[ReFreezed]

Teal is looking rather promising. I will likely try to implement it into one of my semi-big Lua projects (which incidentally is a compiler/transpiler as well).

[Choochificational]

im curious to hear your take on the lua dialect Ravi, hopefully you are still paying attention to comments haha

[llothar]

After a long long decision time i decided to go with mruby instead of lua or javascript for embedding a script language. In fact the best would be a modern Basic dialect as this is still the most easy to script for "no code/low code" end users.

[gridlocdev]

At 17:40, you mentioned that it's time to start using it! But, as I went to do that as a new user, I had trouble with a few things:

- I wasn't easily able to find where to get started in the GitHub repository! The README contains lots of useful information, but the tutorial .md file under the header "Documentation" is buried a bit down and I ended up just scrolling past it while scanning through. (IMO, it should probably be just below the "Introduction" header)
- Since Teal uses Rockspec format 3.0, older versions of LuaRocks are not supported by Teal. For example, the LuaRocks version in the Ubuntu (apt) package repositories is version 2.4.2, which on installing "tl" throws "Error: Rockspec format 3.0 is not supported, please upgrade LuaRocks." I would put in the tutorial which versions of LuaRocks that Teal is compatible with!

[distantforest]

Please get luarocks working on windows!