Is it possible to make an OS in Lua?

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  • nelua-lang

    Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.

    • You could probably write a kernel in Nelua or Luau, though I don't know of any efforts to do so.

  • luau

    A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua

    • You could probably write a kernel in Nelua or Luau, though I don't know of any efforts to do so.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • luakernel

    Lua + SQLite + musl libc running on x86.

    • If you just want a toy kernel that boots to a Lua interpreter, that's doable. Here's one: https://github.com/ers35/luakernel

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