Luon is a high-level programming language with a syntax similar to Oberon+, Oberon-07 and Oberon-2, integrating concepts from Lua, and targeting the LuaJIT VM. Luon can be regarded as a statically typed version of Lua. The name is thus a combination of "Lua" and "Oberon". Luon procedures can be declared "external" and be implemented in Lua. This allows the re-use of libraries written in Lua, and a