Lua 5.4 language support for Godot Engine 3.1 and later

WIP (heavily updated so you can expect constants changes - no commitment with feature freezing at this moment)

Current progress: Currently I'm experimenting with parsers. The one I'm testing right is the PEGTL C++ library. With this in place it will be possible to start answering engine call backs, like for example, _ready(), _process() etc.

• Full Godot's gameplay API implementation (feature complete on par with GDScript)
• Object Oriented Programming based on Lua's tables and metatables
• Support for inheritance from Lua base class and file
• Support for inheritance from native base class and file
• Support for properties
  • Getters, setters and default values
  • Editing properties values in the property editor
• Support for signals
  • Signal connect, emit and receive from code
  • Signal connect from the editor (currently not well supported by Godot)
• Lua language coding in Godot's built in editor
  • On the fly source code linting and static analysis
  • On the fly source code syntax highlighting
  • Source code beautifier
    • Format the entire active file
    • Format the selected text
    • Format automatically when saving
  • Source code refactoring (currently not supported by Godot)
• Lua language coding in external editor (possibly with the same capabilities as the built in editor)
• Debugging tools (possibly with all Godot's debugging capabilities)
• Tool creation to extend the built in editor functionalities
• Support for advanced package assembling
  • Dead code elimination throught tree-shaking
  • Code uglifier and minifier
  • Compilation into binary bytecode
  • Compression or encryption

My development environment is based on Linux and Mac so I don't know if it will work on Windows. I'm afraid probably not for the time been.

So first of all you have to have Godot successfully built in your system. That's out of scope of this simple how to.

Now, assuming you can git clone from GitHub, just clone LuaScript into Godo's source code 'modules' folder and then, build Godot again adding to the command line the following options

module_luascript_enabled=yes

If everything has gone well, you'll have a running Godot with Lua support!

For now not much is done but the simple fact of having Godot built with this initial code is already a cool thing!

So keep watching the development as I'm slowlly but steadly adding more features.

Have fun!

Have a bug? Please create an issue here on GitHub!

https://github.com/perbone/luascript/issues

For transparency and insight into our release cycle, releases are be numbered with the semantic versioning format: <major>.<minor>.<patch> and constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backwards compatibility bumps the major
• New additions without breaking backwards compatibility bumps the minor
• Bug fixes and misc changes bump the patch

• Paulo Perbone (@perbone)

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