A scriptable tool for transforming and transpiling Luau code
- Drop-in replacement for Darklua - Bright is designed to be a much more complex transformer and will support more complex rule definitions, but in exchange this means that it won't act as a simple drop-in
- Simplicity - since Bright is scriptable, it will support a wide variety of transformations that you can apply to code, which means that writing a transformer will not be simple; clear documentation should be prioritised over simplicity
- Producing new ASTs - transformer scripts are for transforming existing ASTs, not making new ones
This is my first time writing a proper Rust project! Things are definitely going to be rough around the edges to begin with, but I'm aiming to learn as I go, and this is a fun learning experience. Overkill for a first proper project? Yes. But worth it? Yes.
A lot of Bright's runtime code was derived from the Lune project. Whilst nothing in Bright is 1:1, Lune was used as either inspiration or the base to write the runtime. It's been handy to learn how they set up things such as Luau LSP typings as well.
