ATProto Browser

ATProto Browser

Experimental browser for the Atmosphere

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I'm fascinated by LuaCATS. I always saw these JSDoc-like type comments in Lua, and assumed they were used by an alternative, TS-like compiler. But it turns out the type system exists only to inform the language server (LuaLS). Are there other type systems like that? luals.github.io/wiki/annotat...

May 5, 2025, 11:12 AM

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