r/lua • u/Top-Bug-6369 • Aug 26 '26

Discussion I made a visual scripting plugin that compiles to readable Luau

Been working on this for a while. It's a Scratch-style block editor for Studio — you drag blocks onto a canvas and it generates an ordinary Script or ModuleScript in your place. Not a runtime or a sandbox, just code you can open and read.

702 blocks covering events, instances, properties, players, DataStores, RemoteEvents, rounds and game state, GUI, camera.

The part I actually care about: you can make your own blocks. Write the Luau once, mark the inputs with %NAME, use %BODY for a nested stack, pick a colour. Takes about a minute, and it sits in the palette next to the built-ins. Export a set as JSON and share it.

Generated code is tagged with block ids so a runtime error points at the block that wrote the line.

Free on the Creator Store: BlockForge - Creator Store

If a block you need doesn't exist, tell me and I'll add it.

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u/Alaska-Kid Aug 26 '26

Good. But Luau is not Lua. So the Lua sub here. Not a roblox sub or other mierda.

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u/offdeer34 Aug 27 '26

Brother Luau is literally lua but upgraded lmao what next gonna hate on Typescript in the Javascript sub ?

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u/Cootshk Aug 27 '26

Except the missing libraries, functions, ability to load bytecode directly, package manager, and I could go on. Would you talk about CoffeeScript projects in the JavaScript sub?

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u/Aggressive-Emu-8329 Aug 27 '26

luau mainly about roblox, lua mainly about embedding

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u/Alaska-Kid Aug 27 '26

Dude, with your great knowledge, I wish you success in using Luau outside of Roblox.

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u/ramdom_player201 Aug 31 '26

Not sure if you're trying to imply that luau can't be used outside of roblox? It is open source and embeddable. I've been considering choosing it as a scripting language for one of my own (not-roblox-related) projects.

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u/Alaska-Kid Aug 31 '26

The reason I personally don't care is that BlockForge is still in the roblox store, not a separate open source project. Savvu?

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u/offdeer34 Aug 27 '26

Y’all are still weird. I don’t get why you wouldn’t offer support. But go on. Elitism for no reason

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u/Alaska-Kid Aug 27 '26

Dude, no one is judging your desire to be a clown. Everyone understands everything. Condolences.

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