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Grain vs MoonScript: What are the differences?

What is Grain? A strongly-typed functional programming language. Grain is a strongly-typed functional programming language built for the modern web. Unlike other languages used on the web today (like TypeScript or Elm), Grain doesn’t compile into JavaScript. Grain complies all the way down to WebAssembly, and is supported by a tiny JavaScript runtime to give Grain access to web features that WebAssembly doesn’t yet support.

What is MoonScript? A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua. 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.

Grain and MoonScript can be categorized as "Languages" tools.

Grain and MoonScript are both open source tools. It seems that MoonScript with 2.19K GitHub stars and 156 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grain with 1.21K GitHub stars and 21 GitHub forks.

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What is Grain?

Grain is a strongly-typed functional programming language built for the modern web. Unlike other languages used on the web today (like TypeScript or Elm), Grain doesn’t compile into JavaScript. Grain complies all the way down to WebAssembly, and is supported by a tiny JavaScript runtime to give Grain access to web features that WebAssembly doesn’t yet support.

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.

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