Lute

LuteRun Luau Anywhere🖥️ General-Purpose APIsLute provides a rich set of built-in APIs for common tasks: file system access, HTTP networking, cryptography, process management, and more.🛠️ First-Class ToolingLute includes a suite of tools, including a test runner, a linter, and the Luau type checker — all accessible through the `lute` CLI.👾 Compatible with RobloxLute runs Luau code, just like Roblox, allowing you to easily run and test modules that don't depend on the game engine itself.What is Lute? ​While Luau is a powerful scripting language, it is sandboxed and primarily embedded in a larger program, like the Roblox game engine. This means it lacks built-in capabilities for interacting with the outside world. Lute fills the gap by providing a standalone runtime for Luau, designed for general-purpose programming outside of game engines. Think of it like Node.js or Deno, but for Luau.How can I use it? ​Lute provides a rich set of built-in APIs for common programming tasks: file system access, HTTP networking, cryptography, process management, and more. You can use these APIs to build a wide variety of applications, from command-line tools to web servers to automation scripts and more. These capabilities come in the form of a set of low-level libraries exposed to Luau under the @lute require alias, and a higher-level standard library built on top of those, exposed under the @std alias. For Roblox developers, we're working hard to ensure the Roblox game engine will support this same set of @std APIs in the future, so you can write code that runs both in Lute and Roblox with minimal changes.