Luau Goes Open Source!

[xrightDoughnutXthief (Yahaba)]

Awesome! This will be great for the community!

[koziahss (Agent_Invalid)]

I am incredibly exited to see what we can do to understand how a lot of the core functions work.
I am very interested to see what people will do with this.

[Voidus_X]

This is what I was waiting for so much! After hearing this in RDC 2021, I was very excited to see how many possibilities can be made using Luau open sourced.

Now that it is here, I can’t wait to see how many innovative works people have made using this. Definitely going to tinker a bit more with C++ first, and then try out this amazing work!

[sipoholin337 (sipo)]

wow, just wow, this is so cool!

[darkpixlz]

Cant wait for people to start using this and finding creative things for it, like Discord Bots! This will really change the future of the language.

[Bloxxy213_DVL (Bloxxy)]

Does this mean that we can use Luau in our own C++ projects, find vulnerabilities, bugs and improve luau? Also, wouldn’t this help exploits?

[apoaddda (apo)]

This is amazing!! Now making discord bots will be super easy if I can work out a way of using luau to write code which is compatible. I cannot wait to see what the community can make with this.

[darkpixlz]

@unix_system

Not really - exploits run their own separate environment anyway which has about the same parity to Roblox’s environment (with some naughty things added on top!). Closed source isn’t a reliable way to prevent cheating; the entire field of reverse engineering thrives on picking those types of projects apart.

@StrategicPlayZ

It will not have any effect on exploits. This is the Luau language being open-sourced, not the Roblox engine itself.

[kevyn1020]

Can’t believe this happened, It’s so great that they have chosen this path. Excited to see how Luau will develop itself from now.

[Deraxile (Sub2Deraxile)]

Will this version of Luau replace the one that’s in the Roblox studio right now? Or, has it been replaced earlier?

[PhoenixRessusection (PhoenixCausesOof)]

@Maximum_ADHD IT HAPPENED!!!

[StrategicPlayZ (Strat)]

That version of Luau is what Roblox Studio already uses.

[AProgrammedFish (fishmo)]

This… is amazing! I can’t believe it we finally got it! Thank you Roblox

[chogiowo (chogi)]

Can’t wait to see the innovations the development community will make with these new resources. This is a big step forward

[X7legendary (X7legendary_Dev)]

This is great! I can’t wait to see what will people make outside of Roblox!

[IAmALazyDev (planky)]

I’m exited. Luau going open source means the the community can help making it grow. Good move!

[Perthyz]

ok so exploits now will have a easy way to implement lua u syntax and lua u optimizations

[SLPM (Lasoor)]

Truly amazing! Can’t wait to look through it and see what I can learn.

[ee0w (Kai)]

Since you guys seem to be going the open-source route, does this mean people be allowed to make pull requests to add functionality? If so, what will be the process behind accepting PRs?

[mohammed1336]

What possibilities does this open up and what can we expect due to this change?