LuaJIT Language Toolkit

https://github.com/franko/luajit-lang-toolkit

by ihnorton • 12 years ago

68 15 12 years ago

ihnorton2• 12 years ago

"For those who doesn't know about the project, the LuaJIT Language Toolkit is an implementation of the Lua programming language written in Lua iself. It works by generating a LuaJIT's bytecode including the debug informations and use the LuaJIT's virtual machine to run the generated bytecode."

corysama• 12 years ago

If you find this interesting, I'll recommend you also give a good, hard look at http://terralang.org

shawndumas• 12 years ago

Wow, perfect timing; this is very close to what my 12yo son is working on but with rust/LLVM (and his own lang).

He has his lexer done and is using a Pratt Parser (TDOP) strategy. This might give him some ideas.

CyberDildonics• 12 years ago

If that is true, you should ask your son to do some sort of write up on what he has learned. Anyone with serious technical skill but not the overhead of worrying about what they 'should' know is great to read. There are a lot of insights from someone without the cruft of conventional wisdom.

samatman3• 12 years ago

This is like a Christmas present. I needed this tool badly enough that I've been reading the LuaJIT source code and mulling over just what it would take to write it.

ludamad• 12 years ago

This is indeed really great. I love targeting LuaJIT with toy languages, and this is more direct than compiling to Lua.

sitkack4• 12 years ago

I love the idea of this project, but as even Mike Pall has mentioned the "proper" way to do this is to target Lua code directly. LuaJIT is designed to speedup Lua, not LJ bytecode.

saosebastiao• 12 years ago

This is the best news I've seen on here in months! Alright, anybody working on a Clojure with a LuaJIT backend? If not, we should get started :)

lemming• 12 years ago

You should definitely check out Pixie: https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie

LuaJIT Language Toolkit

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