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Subject: Re: [9front] lua9: lua interpreter with plan9 bindings
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> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:20 AM <telephil9@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Building on the lua port by staalmannen (http://github.com/staalmannen/lua), I wrote a custom version of the lua interpreter including bindings to some plan9 libraries.
>> I feel that lua is a simple (and good enough) scripting language which makes writing GUI code more convenient than in C.
>> For the time being, this includes bindings for libdraw but I plan to extend this to other plan9 libraries in the future (libplumb for instance).
>>
> 
> Nice work!
> I imagine you wrote a custom interpreter because Plan 9 does not have
> a well established dynamic library mechanism. Do you plan on embedding
> everything into the interpreter?

Thanks.
Yes, the lack of dynamic library loading gives no other choice than embedding everything in the interpreter.
This is the reason why I wrote this instead of lua modules as you would find on other platforms.