Re: Any plans regarding static typing in core Lua?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Karel Tuma <kat@lua.cz> wrote:
> Such a project is simply better served as a separate recompiler targeting Lua.
> It could easily surpass current Lua codebase in line count if you're wishing
> for something robust enough to allow for large scale application development.

Exactly. This is why TypeScript exists and why it's implemented as a
recompiler and not part of the EcmaScript standardization.

(Not only for type-safety and discoverability, but for general ease of
browsing and navigation)

I suspect one could get pretty far with type annotations as part of
the _documentation_ of an interface.