What is MoonScript?
It is a dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua. It gives you the power of one of the fastest scripting languages combined with a rich set of features.
MoonScript is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
MoonScript is an open source tool with 3.2K GitHub stars and 189 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to MoonScript's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses MoonScript?
Companies
Developers
6 developers on StackShare have stated that they use MoonScript.
MoonScript Integrations
GitHub, Ruby, Lua, Corona SDK, and mruby are some of the popular tools that integrate with MoonScript. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with MoonScript.
MoonScript's Features
- Whitespace sensitive language
- Use line-breaks and indentation
- Consistent.
MoonScript Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to MoonScript?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Lua
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
