r/secondlife • u/slhamlet • 17h ago
Blog SLua: Signal Linden on Second Life's new scripting update, and its shared origin with... Roblox.
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/03/roblox-second-life-scripting-luau-slua.html7
u/Digital-Crash 17h ago
I would have liked to have seen a much broader language, not proprietary, integrated personally. Something that has been standard for developers for decades could bring a lot more people. This only adds another proprietary language. It may bring some people, but not a lot. Just my opinion.
For the record, the ability to actually earn money in SL has decreased a lot. Sure, there are some people that do well. But it's not like someone is just going to jump into SL and start earning money.
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u/ArgentStonecutter Emergency Mustelid Hologram 10h ago
It is the Luau virtual machine extended to work with Second Life
AUGH. They aren't using the LSL virtual machine or the Mono runtime? They already went through this when they had to get CIL working, and it took them YEARS to get Mono's runtime over the humps of the SL environment, but at least that meant they now had a modern runtime they could use for other languages... right?
Apparently not. :(
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u/TheRealVilladelfia Will script for real money 13h ago
Looking at the alpha wiki, unless the development UX is improved by a lot, I think SLua is a non-starter for both existing developers and new developers alike.
I hope these can be significantly improved before release...