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| LuaJIT | Wren | |
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| 39 | 44 | |
| 4,396 | 6,745 | |
| 2.4% | 0.8% | |
| 8.9 | 0.0 | |
| 2 days ago | 8 months ago | |
| C | Wren | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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LuaJIT
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On the impossibility of composing finalizers and FFI
Unfortunately things aren't so simple, as when doing JIT compilation, LuaJIT _will_ try to shorten the lifetimes of local variables. Using the latest available version of LuaJIT (https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/0d313b243194a0b8d239...), the following reliably fails for me:
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Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically
I am using https://luajit.org/ in my GCC C++ project.
Can I use this faster Lua JIT in my project as a replacement? And if so, how so?
The existing luajit doesn't do v5.1, so it would be nice to use this newer engine at the newer baseline lua version level.
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
The commit history looks pretty active...
https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/v2.1/
- LuaJIT 3.0 Issue Tracker
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LuaJIT Uses Rolling Releases
I think https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/6a2163a6b45d6d251599... improved things a bit, notably making automatic tarballs work again.
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How to clear a table without wasting memory?
There is nothing on luajit.org, so I assume that 2.0 doesn't have the extensions added (think the site is still on 2.0). However I found some proof in the mirrored git repo, that they do exist and also my luajit interpreter (2.1.0-beta3) shows them as builtins.
- Clone Mike Pall
- Which for loop method is faster
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Recommendations for JS Engines that could be embedded in my Game Engine
If you absolutely want a performant scripting runtime, I'd recommend taking a look at LuaJit, DaScript or AngelScript.
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Any embeddable language compatible with C (like Lua) but compiled?
If you don't like that - look towards JIT-compilers. Lua has one
Wren
- Tinyssh
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Show HN: Wren – simple yet super extensible task management system
For a moment I thought it was about wren programming language... [1]
[1] https://wren.io/
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Attempting each AOC in a language starting with each letter of the alphabet
For "W" you could use Wren.
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.
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Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Only kind of unrelated ... Every time I see the Bevy logo I'm reminded of Wren language https://wren.io/
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Are they all like this?
If you want a pure C99 (sadly not C89 like Lua) immensely fast embeddable language pure interpreter, wren is a great language with excellent features like overload by arity. There is a huge maturity gap between the languages tho.
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Most important language features not touched in the book "Crafting Interpreters"?
Check out the source to Wren: https://wren.io. It’s from the author of Crafting Interpreters and builds directly on what’s discussed in the book (essentially a more complete Lox) and adds several additional types, including an array.
- Why does Rust have parameters on impl?
- Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix
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What are some good C programs I can read through?
The best C code I have ever read is that of wren.
What are some alternatives?
lua-languages - Languages that compile to Lua
Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
moonjit - Just-In-Time Compiler for the Lua Programming language. Fork of LuaJIT to continue development. This project does not have an active maintainer, see https://twitter.com/siddhesh_p/status/1308594269502885889?s=20 for more detail.
ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++
luajit2 - OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2
V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
ravi - Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers
ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore]
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation: