A dialect of Lua based on Lua, LJS, Pluto, and Ravi attempting to be an all-in-one language.

Program with a ultrafast, easy to learn, low-level, portable programming language.

  • Insane performance that outperforms Lua
  • Preprocessor written in 100% cobalt
  • Extensive standard library
  • Simplified API to make cross-platform development easy
  • Easy to learn syntax, like C and JavaScript
  • Based on Lua
  • Enums, Custom Types, and more
  • Manual memory management + garbage collection
  • Use C macros, and access lowlevel features.
  • Typechecker
  • Optional transpiler from Lua to Cobalt
DocumentationGitHub →
Bash
$git clone https://github.com/cobalt-lang/cobalt$cd cobalt$cmake .$make$make install
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What's included

Memorable Syntax

Cobalt try's to be as memorable as possible, it has a JavaScript-like syntax, but with the power of C.

Use your code anywhere

The API has been designed to be as simple as possible, while doing the hard cross-platform work for you. Regardless if you are on Windows, Linux, macOS, or even a console, anywhere. Cobalt has you covered.

Standard Library

Cobalt comes with a simple and easy to use standard library, which includes everything you need to get started, from memory functions, I/O, even structs. Not only that but you can use C and Lua libraries too.

Ultrafast

Outperforms Lua in most benchmarks.

Types

Cobalt supports Type Annotations, and Type Checking. Custom Types is in the cobalt24 beta