ljs VS Tabula

- Luajit +FFI is the fastest, cleanest way to integrate C libs into a script. Its insane how nice it is - should be illegal :). - Lua meta tables/methods are the most under stated capability of Lua. These mechanisms allow Lua to really work like a large scale HLL. Heck you can event make a language in it! Want Lua to look like C/JS? https://github.com/mingodad/ljs There are many like this. :) - Luajit fixed at 5.2 API means its _not_ _going_ _to_ _break_ when you bring in libraries. One of my biggest pet peeves are people that think languages should always change - I think you need to read Linus's thoughts on moving ABI's any why its dumb. - If you dont like the lang, embed Lua into another lang, and then just use it for "parts" you need it for. Most of the game and sim systems I built, used this method (some with SWIG).

I created Lua with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax https://github.com/mingodad/ljs

Also forked a scripting language https://github.com/mingodad/squilu and extended it to accept a pseudo C++/Java/CSharp/Typescript syntax to make easy to reuse code and have fast iteration when creating new functions (with it and minor changes I could get https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Projects/Coco/ parser to work for easy grammar development).

Create a tool for create, document and prototype database applications at "user level" in near realtime (live) https://github.com/mingodad/db-api-server.

Extended GLPK to accept a bigger subset of AMPL and made some performance improvements in the GMPL interpreter https://github.com/mingodad/GLPK

tabula-java [0], a library for extracting tables from PDF files. It started as a monolithic webapp written in JRuby, and we later extracted the table detection and segmentation logic into a Java library.

[0] https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java

Ties together a Cuba web app, the tabula-java library and lauch4j to provide a platform executable.