# Luau Goes Open-Source

<https://luau-lang.org/2021/11/03/luau-goes-open-source.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

I didn’t realize that Roblox was built on Lua, or now Luau.

> A few years ago, we started looking into how we can evolve Lua to be even faster, have better ergonomics, make it easier to write robust code and to unlock an ecosystem of rich tooling—from better static analysis to IDE integrations.
> 
> This is how Luau was born.

It seems this is backward compatible with Lua? Curious why this isn't just Lua 6? Maybe the Lua team will merge this in and un-fork it.

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- [WT203: Weekly Thing #203 / Discord, Family, Names](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/203/), Notable

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