Re: Mike Pall's standalone FFI: a dream?

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 12/05/2011 6.10, Miles Bader wrote:
> dcharno<dcharno@comcast.net>  writes:
> > Yes, I have this dream often.  I doubt my applications would benefit
> > from LuaJIT's performance, but the simplicity of the FFI makes it very
> > attractive.
>
> ... and it would mean that one could rely on FFI as a "general solution"
> for portable code.  LuaJIT is very nice, but it only works on a subset
> of architectures, and knowing one can always fall back to standard Lua
> is very comforting.

Yes!
Simplicity, readability (as far as C is readable - but it is a stable 
standard nevertheless) and portability!
Not to mention that if Mike implements the C preprocessor in the FFI 
parser, you could have "conditional compilation".

So you could make Lua scripts that can be designed to adapt themselves 
to different platforms and still being able to access system API 
facilities. So you could have the best of two worlds. Maybe not the most 
readable code, but as the old say goes:

"make simple things simple and difficult ones possible"


Really a dream! :-)


> -Miles

P.S.: really nice signature! :-D