Lua luajit-ffi Projects

lua-macos-app

3 64 7.3 Lua

A sample GUI Lua REPL, showing how to bundle LuaJIT into a self-contained MacOS app

Project mention: Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-20

I’ve been toying with a few utilities I want to turn into apps, and came across https://github.com/mogenson/lua-macos-app the other day. It binds LuaJIT directly to Objective-C.
It is _insanely good_ to my eyes since I’ve done ObjC since the NeXT days and find Swift full of weird corner cases and limited functionality.

fast_brainfuck.lua

3 12 1.8 Lua

High performance brainfuck transpiler/interpreter for Lua with FFI support. Very fast implementation with multiple optimization passes.
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