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Alexander Gladysh wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 13:16, Matthew Wild wrote:

On 20 July 2010 09:18, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:19, Kristofer Karlsson wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Alexander Gladysh wrote:

[snipped]

It's only a VM, which means that scripts either need to be compiled
offline, or someone needs to write a compiler in Lua or Javascript. In
fact (although I haven't looked at it yet) the former has already been
done as far as I know: http://yueliang.luaforge.net/ - so if one
wanted to compile scripts live in the browser, Yueliang could be
compiled offline and run in the VM in the browser to compile them.



From what I hear, Yueliang is often used to bootstrap alternative Lua

implementations.
And a good thing too, since Yueliang is never meant to be maintained, so serious projects that wish to attract and build a user base should arrange for taking care of their own codebase, e.g. fork, rewrite, bootstrap, etc.
There's also this for the VM engine, though I don't recall the author posting around these parts: 

  http://luaforge.net/projects/lulu/

Not sure how much of Lua is implemented, but it is impressively small.

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