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 3.3K GitHub stars and 192 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.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.