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Well, you can write client-side web apps in Lua:

https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js

Unfortunately, there is a bug in Lua.js and it doesn't support the preferred method of creating modules[1]. For this reason, I've yet to get a substantial size app written. I'd still like to go back and fix this myself eventually, but I was sinking a lot of time into trying to get it to work.

[1] https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js/issues/13#issuecomment-...




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