Roblox Bytecode

Roblox bytecode is something you've probably interacted with thousands of times without even realizing it, especially if you spend any significant time inside the Roblox Studio editor. Whenever you click that "Play" button or publish a game to the cloud, there's a massive invisible translation process happening behind the scenes. You see a screen full of readable Luau code—with its if-then statements and print("Hello World") calls—but the Roblox engine sees something entirely different. It sees a dense, optimized stream of binary data that tells the virtual machine exactly what to do at lightning speed. ...

January 28, 2026 · 7 min · Lucya Sant