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| luajit2 | pallene | |
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| 9 days ago | 20 days ago | |
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luajit2
- LuaJIT
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Luajit is almost stop development, what will be neovim’s future?
And Neovim is using OpenResty's branch of Luajit
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Fengari – Lua for the Browser
Yea, LuaJIT can get near C speeds, as far as I'm aware. You can read more here: https://luajit.org/luajit.html
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Could someone clarify Raylib for me?
I also found this gtihub repo, this one is using luaJIT a just in time lua compiler, i dont know if you have any python expirience but this one, but from what i understand luaJIT makes lua a language that can be compiled and run in your terminal, it aperently also has a comminty made package/library manager called cherry.
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What's the state of LuaJIT these days?
openresty's LuaJIT2 has, and makes, regular releases (the last one was less than a month ago), and closely tracks development, including the extensions beyond Lua 5.1.
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Open letter to core vim developers and vim community
There is also the openresty fork of luajit which Neovim can be built with and provides their own releases.
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What is the benefit of writing plugins in Lua rather than any other language?
luajit.org said
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Where to start on making a game engine
Remember, bad C++ code will certainly be slower than good code written in an interpreted language! That being said, Lua is very fast, one of the fastest scripting languages. See this thread, which talks about LuaJit.
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Why LuaJIT's interpreter is written in assembly
https://github.com/openresty/luajit2
It has a few extras but they agree with the original luajit authors opinion that not every 5.2 feature can be made in jit.
pallene
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LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
It would have been nice if LuaX was written in Lua.
Forking Pallene (https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene) would introduce:
- Which for loop method is faster
- Using Lua with C++
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Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language
Terra and Nelua are both very different in goals than Teal. Teal is literally gradual types integrated into Lua keeping as many of Lua's idioms as possible (to a fault[1]). Terra and Nelua are both very metaprogrammable systems programming languages. Nelua's goals are primarily to soften C's rough edges, comparable to something like Nim.
There's another one you missed in Pallene[2]. But again, it's goal was to optimize the stack sharing involved in using the C API. It also adds types though and maintains Lua idioms as much as possible.
[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/discussions/339
[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
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Nelua, AOT statically typed Lua
That was somewhat of an entertaining read.
> Terra is C if you replaced the preprocessor with Lua.
This is what is written on the tin.
PUC made there own version of Terra
Pallene http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/Gualandi-2020-SCP.pd...
https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3inzGGFefg
This is a good writeup on all the Alt-Luas https://injuly.in/blog/gsoc/
- data types in function definition
- You can make Lua compiled/statically typed using Teal... It's like TypeScript, but for Lua!
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Lua, a Misunderstood Language
Odd to suggest that if they're interested in Lua, that they should check out Moonscript which is a different language altogether (although it compiles to Lua). But if you insist, something a little more Lua-ish is Teal[1] (gradual types ala TypeScript) or Pallene[2] (companion typed subset of Lua meant to generate optimized C libraries for use with Lua).
[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl
[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
- Interesting discussion about lua on Hacker News
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Upcoming interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy
You might be thinking of Pallene (previously named Titan) https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene
What are some alternatives?
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
asm-dom - A minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA (Single page applications)
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
pynvim - Python client and plugin host for Nvim
nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
lua-languages - Languages that compile to Lua
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
benchmarks - Some benchmarks of different languages
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.
cobweb - COBOL to WebAssembly compiler
moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua