Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> There is no interpreter or VM, all of the code is converted directly into native machine code. This means you can expect better efficiency than Lua. However, this also means that Nelua cannot load code generated at runtime. The user is encouraged to generate code at compile-time using the preprocessor. Sounds like this is less like Typescript (take the "base" language, add typechecking, and then "transpile" back into the base language) and more like Crystal (take the "base" language…
Wow, amazing stuff. I love Lua, it was how I learned programming as a kid. Coincidently from the same world as the author. Open Tibia. The author made a custom client (https://github.com/edubart/otclient) for the game that is still very much in active use by thousands of players. He's a very skilled developer. Great to see AOT compiled Lua, I know of the other solutions: Luau (from Roblox), Teal, TypeScriptToLua, Terra, etc., but this one is my favorite so far. Love…
Saw it mentioned in some recent HN thread. Looks interesting. Alpha.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 403
- Total comments
- 173
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-24 | Nelua Programming LanguageFirst breakout · Best thread | nonbirithm | 242 | 118 |
| 2023-01-26 | Nelua, AOT statically typed LuaLatest 20+ point return | gatane | 155 | 51 |
| 2024-04-22 | Nelua: Statically typed language with a Lua flavor | nequo | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-05-25 | Nelua Programming Language | fuzztester | 4 | 4 |