Impressions of Teal

About two months ago, I found the Teal programming language , which describes itself as a statically-typed dialect of Lua. It transpiles to Lua and runs typecheck on the developer’s machine, so it fills roughly the same niche as TypeScript. It’s used by quite a few projects, including LuaRocks and inspect . For better or worse, I am trying to write Lua without feeling like it’s year 2010, and Teal…