Re: Terra - A low-level counterpart to Lua

[Marco Salamone <requerent@...>]

This looks like a university thesis gone a little too far.

 

Escape returns aren't really more than syntactic sugar for memoization, quote isn't any different from a macro, and we otherwise just see a bunch of C sucked into Lua syntax.

 

I don't think it was necessarily well-conceived, but it looks insanely useful even in its current form.

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:

> So, as I understand it, programming in "Terra" environment means really
> writing a LLVM-based compiler, only instead of LLVM you use Terra (which,
> reportedly, seems to actually translate to LLVM underneath?), and instead
> of C++ you use Lua.

My simpler idea of this (for people who are not looking to build a
compiler) is
that you can use Terra as some kind of C (since it generates .o files that
are
ABI-compatible with C) and Lua as an overpowered preprocessor.

Generating code compatible with C (meaning you can link it or make it a
dynamic library) is an awesome feature IMO.

I have yet to play more with the language but this looks really good.

--
Pierre Chapuis