Re: [9front] lua9: lua interpreter with plan9 bindings

[raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:41:38 +0100
telephil9@gmail.com wrote:

> > 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.
> 

Do you plan on porting it from APE to native Plan 9 libaries?
That would allow native code to link to liblua.a.

I have a WIP port that does that, but I have other projects that need
my attention more.

Personally, I'd love to use Lua instead of Acid's rather limited
scripting language, that's my biggest motivation for writing the port.