Wiki: Luau

Because Luau is based on Lua 5.1, most tips from the Lua page also apply to Luau.

Additional features compared to Lua

• Compound assignment operators: +=, ..=, //=, ...
• String interpolation: `{x}`
• Loops support the continue statement
• string.split() exists
• Iteration over tables is possible without pairs/ipairs: for k, v in {...} do ... end

Missing features compared to Lua

• Bitwise operators don't exist, the bit32 library can be used instead
• The io library including io.write
• load(), use loadstring() instead