Removed 'Originally posted' and outdated website links (#52)

vegorov-rbx · web-flow · commit 96af82d9c8a2 · 2025-06-09T08:01:37.000-07:00
diff --git a/_pages/performance.md b/_pages/performance.md
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ While large tables can be a problem for incremental GC in general since currentl
 
 The incremental garbage collector in Luau runs three phases for each cycle: mark, atomic and sweep. Mark incrementally traverses all live objects, atomic finishes various operations that need to happen without mutator intervention (see previous section), and sweep traverses all objects in the heap, reclaiming memory used by dead objects and performing minor fixup for live objects. While objects allocated during the mark phase are traversed in the same cycle and thus may get reclaimed, objects allocated during the sweep phase are considered live. Because of this, the faster the sweep phase completes, the less garbage will accumulate; and, of course, the less time sweeping takes the less overhead there is from this phase of garbage collection on the process.
 
-Since sweeping traverses the whole heap, we maximize the efficiency of this traversal by allocating garbage-collected objects of the same size in 16 KB pages, and traversing each page at a time, which is otherwise known as a paged sweeper. This ensures good locality of reference as consecutively swept objects are contiugous in memory, and allows us to spend no memory for each object on sweep-related data or allocation metadata, since paged sweeper doesn't need to be able to free objects without knowing which page they are in. Compared to linked list based sweeping that Lua/LuaJIT implement, paged sweeper is 2-3x faster, and saves 16 bytes per object on 64-bit platforms.
+Since sweeping traverses the whole heap, we maximize the efficiency of this traversal by allocating garbage-collected objects of the same size in 16 KB pages, and traversing each page at a time, which is otherwise known as a paged sweeper. This ensures good locality of reference as consecutively swept objects are contiguous in memory, and allows us to spend no memory for each object on sweep-related data or allocation metadata, since paged sweeper doesn't need to be able to free objects without knowing which page they are in. Compared to linked list based sweeping that Lua/LuaJIT implement, paged sweeper is 2-3x faster, and saves 16 bytes per object on 64-bit platforms.
 
 ## Function inlining and loop unrolling
 
diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-11-luau-recap-november-2019.md b/_posts/2019-11-11-luau-recap-november-2019.md
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ title:  "Luau Recap: November 2019"
 
 A few months ago, we’ve released our new Lua implementation, Luau ([Faster Lua VM Released](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/faster-lua-vm-released/339587)) and made it the default for most platforms and configurations. Since then we’ve shipped many smaller changes that improved performance and expanded the usability of the VM. Many of them have been noted in release notes but some haven’t, so here’s a recap of everything that has happened in the Lua land since September!
 
-[Originally posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-november-2019/).]
-
 ## Debugger beta
 
 When we launched the new VM, we did it without the full debugger support. The reason for this is that the new VM is substantially different and the old implementation of the debugger (that relied on line hooks) just doesn’t work.
diff --git a/_posts/2020-01-16-luau-type-checking-beta.md b/_posts/2020-01-16-luau-type-checking-beta.md
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ We’ve been quietly working on building a type checker for Lua for quite some t
 
 I am very happy to offer a beta test into the second half of the Luau effort.
 
-[Originally posted on the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-type-checking-beta/).]
-
 ## Beta Test
 
 First, a word of caution: In this test, we are changing the syntax of Lua. We are pretty sure that we’ve mostly gotten things right, but part of the reason we’re calling this a beta is that, if we learn that we’ve made a mistake, we’re going to go back and fix it even if it breaks compatibility.
diff --git a/_posts/2020-02-25-luau-recap-february-2020.md b/_posts/2020-02-25-luau-recap-february-2020.md
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ We continue to iterate on our language stack, working on many features for type
 
 A lot of people work on these improvements; thanks @Apakovtac, @EthicalRobot, @fun_enthusiast, @xyzzyismagic, @zeuxcg!
 
-[Originally posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-february-2020/).]
-
 We were originally intending to ship the beta last year but had to delay it due to last minute bugs. However, it’s now live as a beta option on production! Go here to learn more:
 
 EDIT: Please DO NOT publish places with type annotations just yet as they will not work on production! This is why it’s a beta 🙂 However, please continue to experiment in Studio and give us feedback. We are reading everything and will be fixing reported bugs and discussing syntax / semantics issues some people brought up. Hello! We’ve been quietly working on building a type checker for Lua for quite some time now. It is now far enough along that we’d really like to hear what…
diff --git a/_posts/2020-05-18-luau-recap-may-2020.md b/_posts/2020-05-18-luau-recap-may-2020.md
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ title:  "Luau Recap: May 2020"
 
 Luau (lowercase u, “l-wow”) is an umbrella initiative to improve our language stack - the syntax, compiler, virtual machine, builtin Lua libraries, type checker, linter (known as Script Analysis in Studio), and more related components. We continuously develop the language and runtime to improve performance, robustness and quality of life. Here we will talk about all things that happened since the update in March!
 
-[Originally posted on the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-may-2020/).]
-
 ## New function type annotation syntax
 
 As noted in the previous update, the function type annotation syntax now uses `:` on function definitions and `->` on standalone function types:
diff --git a/_posts/2020-06-20-luau-recap-june-2020.md b/_posts/2020-06-20-luau-recap-june-2020.md
@@ -9,11 +9,9 @@ anxiously glances at FIB3 thread that casts a huge shadow on this announcement,
 
 Many people work on these improvements; thanks @Apakovtac, @EthicalRobot, @fun_enthusiast, @zeuxcg!
 
-[Originally posted on the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-june-2020/).]
-
 ## We have a website!
 
-Many developers told us on many occasions that as much as they love the recaps, it’s hard to know what the state of the language or libraries is if the only way to find out is to read through all updates. What’s the syntax extensions that Luau supports now? How do I use type checking? What’s the status of <my favorite feature> from Lua 5.x?
+Many developers told us on many occasions that as much as they love the recaps, it’s hard to know what the state of the language or libraries is if the only way to find out is to read through all updates. What’s the syntax extensions that Luau supports now? How do I use type checking? What’s the status of &lt;my favorite feature&gt; from Lua 5.x?
 
 Well, you can find all of this out here now: [https://roblox.github.io/luau/](https://roblox.github.io/luau/)
 
diff --git a/_posts/2020-08-11-luau-recap-august-2020.md b/_posts/2020-08-11-luau-recap-august-2020.md
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap August 2020"
 ---
 
-As everyone knows by now, Luau is our new language stack that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau) and the month following June is August so let’s talk about changes, big and small, that happened since June!
+Let’s talk about changes, big and small, that happened since June!
 
 Many people work on these improvements, with the team slowly growing - thanks @Apakovtac, @EthicalRobot, @fun_enthusiast, @mrow_pizza and @zeuxcg!
 
-[Originally posted on the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-august-2020/).]
-
 ## Type annotations are safe to use in production!
 
 When we started the Luau type checking beta, we’ve had a big warning sign in the post saying to not publish the type-annotated scripts to your production games which some of you did anyway. This was because we didn’t want to commit to specific syntax for types, and were afraid that changing the syntax would break your games.
diff --git a/_posts/2020-10-30-luau-recap-october-2020.md b/_posts/2020-10-30-luau-recap-october-2020.md
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: October 2020"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau); we’ve been so busy working on the current projects that we didn’t do an update in September, so let’s look at changes that happened since August!
+We’ve been so busy working on the current projects that we didn’t do an update in September, so let’s look at changes that happened since August!
 
 Many people work on these improvements, with the team slowly growing - thanks @Apakovtac, @EthicalRobot, @fun_enthusiast, @machinamentum, @mrow_pizza and @zeuxcg!
 
-[Originally posted on the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-october-2020/).]
-
 ## Types are very close
 
 We’ve been in beta for a while now, but we’re steadily marching towards getting the first release of the type checker, what we call “types v0”, out of the door. It turns out that we’ve substantially underestimated the effort required to make the type system robust, strike the balance between “correct” and “usable” and give quality diagnostics in the event we do find issues with your code 🙂
diff --git a/_posts/2020-11-19-luau-type-checking-release.md b/_posts/2020-11-19-luau-type-checking-release.md
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Type Checking Release"
 ---
 
-10 months ago, we’ve started upon the journey of helping Roblox scripters write robust code by introducing [an early beta of type checking](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-type-checking-release). We’ve received a lot of enthusiastic feedback and worked with the community on trying to make sure critical issues are addressed, usability is improved and the type system is ready for prime time.
+10 months ago, we’ve started upon the journey of helping Roblox programmers write robust code by introducing [an early beta of type checking](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-type-checking-release). We’ve received a lot of enthusiastic feedback and worked with the community on trying to make sure critical issues are addressed, usability is improved and the type system is ready for prime time.
 
 Today I’m incredibly excited to announce that the first release of [Luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau/) type checking is officially released! Thanks a lot to @Apakovtac, @EthicalRobot, @fun_enthusiast, @machinamentum, @mrow_pizza and @zeuxcg!
 
-[Originally posted on the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-type-checking-release/).]
-
 ## What is type checking?
 
 When Luau code runs, every value has a certain type at runtime - a kind of value it stores. It could be a number, a string, a table, a Roblox Instance or one of many others. Thing is, some operations work on some types but don’t work on others!
diff --git a/_posts/2021-03-01-luau-recap-february-2021.md b/_posts/2021-03-01-luau-recap-february-2021.md
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: February 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau). It's been a busy few months in Luau!
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-february-2021/).]
+It's been a busy few months in Luau!
 
 ## Infallible parser
 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-03-29-luau-recap-march-2021.md b/_posts/2021-03-29-luau-recap-march-2021.md
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: March 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau). It's been a busy month in Luau!
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-march-2021/).]
+It's been a busy month in Luau!
 
 ## Typed variadics
 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-04-30-luau-recap-april-2021.md b/_posts/2021-04-30-luau-recap-april-2021.md
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: April 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau). Another busy month in Luau with many performance improvements.
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-april-2021/).]
+Another busy month in Luau with many performance improvements.
 
 ## Editor features
 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-05-31-luau-recap-may-2021.md b/_posts/2021-05-31-luau-recap-may-2021.md
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: May 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau). This month we have added a new small feature to the language and spent a lot of time improving our typechecker.
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-may-2021/).]
+This month we have added a new small feature to the language and spent a lot of time improving our typechecker.
 
 ## Named function type arguments
 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-06-30-luau-recap-june-2021.md b/_posts/2021-06-30-luau-recap-june-2021.md
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: June 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://roblox.github.io/luau](https://roblox.github.io/luau). Most of our team was busy working on improving Luau interaction with Roblox Studio for an upcoming feature this month, but we were able to add typechecking and performance improvements as well!
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-june-2021/).]
+Most of our team was busy working on improving Luau interaction with Roblox Studio for an upcoming feature this month, but we were able to add typechecking and performance improvements as well!
 
 ## Constraint Resolver
 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-07-30-luau-recap-july-2021.md b/_posts/2021-07-30-luau-recap-july-2021.md
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: July 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org). Our team was still busy working on upcoming Studio Beta feature for script editor, but we did fit in multiple typechecking improvements.
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-july-2021/).]
+Our team was still busy working on upcoming Studio Beta feature for script editor, but we did fit in multiple typechecking improvements.
 
 ## Typechecking improvements
 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-08-31-luau-recap-august-2021.md b/_posts/2021-08-31-luau-recap-august-2021.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: August 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-august-2021/).]
-
 ## Editor features
 
 The Roblox Studio [Luau-Powered Autocomplete & Language Features Beta](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/script-editor-luau-powered-autocomplete-language-features-beta) that our team has been working on has finally been released!
diff --git a/_posts/2021-09-30-luau-recap-september-2021.md b/_posts/2021-09-30-luau-recap-september-2021.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: September 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-september-2021/).]
-
 ## Generic functions
 
 The big news this month is that generic functions are back!
@@ -32,7 +28,7 @@ type Swapper = { swap : <X, Y>(Point<X, Y>) -> Point<Y, X> }
 ```
 
 People may remember that back in
-[April](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-april-2021/) we
+[April](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-april-2021/1205599) we
 announced generic functions, but then had to disable them. That was
 because [DataBrain](https://devforum.roblox.com/u/databrain) discovered a [nasty
 interaction](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recent-type-system-regressions-for-generic-parametered-functions/)
diff --git a/_posts/2021-10-31-luau-recap-october-2021.md b/_posts/2021-10-31-luau-recap-october-2021.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: October 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-october-2021/).]
-
 ## if-then-else expression
 
 In addition to supporting standard if *statements*, Luau adds support for if *expressions*.
diff --git a/_posts/2021-11-29-luau-recap-november-2021.md b/_posts/2021-11-29-luau-recap-november-2021.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: November 2021"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-november-2021/).]
-
 ## Type packs in type aliases
 
 Type packs are the construct Luau uses to represent a sequence of types. We've had syntax for generic type packs for a while now, and it sees use in generic functions, but it hasn't been available in type aliases. That has changed, and it is now syntactically legal to write the following type alias:
diff --git a/_posts/2022-01-27-luau-recap-january-2022.md b/_posts/2022-01-27-luau-recap-january-2022.md
@@ -3,12 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: January 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our programming language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Find us on GitHub](https://github.com/Roblox/luau)!
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-january-2022/).]
-
 ## Performance improvements
 
 The implementation of `tostring` has been rewritten.  This change replaces the default number->string conversion with a
diff --git a/_posts/2022-02-28-luau-recap-february-2022.md b/_posts/2022-02-28-luau-recap-february-2022.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: February 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-february-2022/).]
-
 ## Default type alias type parameters
 
 We have introduced a syntax to provide default type arguments inside the type alias type parameter list.
diff --git a/_posts/2022-03-31-luau-recap-march-2022.md b/_posts/2022-03-31-luau-recap-march-2022.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: March 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-march-2022/).]
-
 ## Singleton types
 
 We added support for singleton types! These allow you to use string or
diff --git a/_posts/2022-05-02-luau-recap-april-2022.md b/_posts/2022-05-02-luau-recap-april-2022.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: April 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-april-2022/).]
-
 It's been a bit of a quiet month.  We mostly have small optimizations and bugfixes for you.
 
 It is now allowed to define functions on sealed tables that have string indexers.  These functions will be typechecked against the indexer type.  For example, the following is now valid:
diff --git a/_posts/2022-06-01-luau-recap-may-2022.md b/_posts/2022-06-01-luau-recap-may-2022.md
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ title:  "Luau Recap: May 2022"
 
 This month Luau team has worked to bring you a new language feature together with more typechecking improvements and bugfixes!
 
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-may-2022/).]
-
 ## Generalized iteration
 
 We have extended the semantics of standard Lua syntax for iterating through containers, `for vars in values` with support for generalized iteration.  
diff --git a/_posts/2022-07-07-luau-recap-june-2022.md b/_posts/2022-07-07-luau-recap-june-2022.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: June 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-june-2022/).]
-
 # Lower bounds calculation
 
 A common problem that Luau has is that it primarily works by inspecting expressions in your program and narrowing the _upper bounds_ of the values that can inhabit particular variables.  In other words, each time we see a variable used, we eliminate possible sets of values from that variable's domain.
@@ -15,13 +11,13 @@ There are some important cases where this doesn't produce a helpful result.  Tak
 
 ```lua
 function find_first_if(vec, f)
-	for i, e in ipairs(vec) do
-		if f(e) then
-			return i
-		end
-	end
+    for i, e in ipairs(vec) do
+        if f(e) then
+            return i
+        end
+    end
 
-	return nil
+    return nil
 end
 ```
 
diff --git a/_posts/2022-08-29-luau-recap-august-2022.md b/_posts/2022-08-29-luau-recap-august-2022.md
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: July & August 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
 [Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-july-august-2022/).]
 
 ## Tables now support `__len` metamethod
diff --git a/_posts/2022-11-01-luau-recap-september-october-2022.md b/_posts/2022-11-01-luau-recap-september-october-2022.md
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ layout: single
 title:  "Luau Recap: September & October 2022"
 ---
 
-Luau is our new language that you can read more about at [https://luau-lang.org](https://luau-lang.org).
-
-[Cross-posted to the [Roblox Developer Forum](https://devforum.roblox.com/t/luau-recap-september-october-2022/).]
-
 ## Semantic subtyping
 
 One of the most important goals for Luau is to avoid *false
diff --git a/_posts/2022-11-30-luau-recap-november-2022.md b/_posts/2022-11-30-luau-recap-november-2022.md
diff --git a/_posts/2023-03-31-luau-recap-march-2023.md b/_posts/2023-03-31-luau-recap-march-2023.md
diff --git a/_posts/2023-07-28-luau-recap-july-2023.md b/_posts/2023-07-28-luau-recap-july-2023.md
