[implicit]

Further, these extra components are easy to omit if you don't want to use them.

The REPL that we offer in the distribution doesn't include any of the analysis logic and it's just 1.7mb once compiled (on my M1 Macbook). I'm not sure how much smaller it gets if you omit CodeGen.

Luau can be pretty small if you need it to be.

[kragen]

Did you say just 1.7MB? For the REPL alone? Or is that with a bunch of heavyweight libraries?

The Lua REPL executable on my cellphone is 0.17 megabytes.

[kragen]

Also for the first ten years I used computers I was using all kinds of REPLs on computers that didn't have 1.7MB of RAM. On my first computer, which had one floppy drive and no hard drive, 1.7MB would have been 17 floppy disks, or 26 times the size of its RAM. So I'm kind of unconvinced by this stance that 1.7MB is a small REPL.

I mean, it's smaller than bash? But even your mom is smaller than bash.