Re: implicit conversions in Lua -- what is idiomatic?

[Josh Haberman <jhaberman@...>]

Yes, my library "upb" is a larger effort of which bindings to Lua are
just a part. I have schema classes and an optimized decoder written in
C+DynASM that can be easily bound to any language runtime. And I have
plans to extend this to other data formats like JSON and even to bind
it to my dormant Gazelle library (http://www.gazelle-parser.org/) for
LPeg/Bison-like text parsing.

The vision is:

  {C, C++, Lua, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, etc.} x
  {Protocol Buffers, JSON, Thrift, Avro, Regexes, Text Parsing} x
  Highly optimized C+JIT encoders/decoders

All in a single library. The whole vision will take a while, but I'm
hoping you'll see PB and JSON for Lua at least this year.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
>> On 6 January 2014 12:37, Josh Haberman <jhaberman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To give a bit more context, what I am working on isn't a binding of a
>>> specific C data structure, but a full Protocol Buffer library.
>>
>> FWIW so was I; but figured it was better to concentrate efforts on
>> just the one protobuf library.
>> (being https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-pb )
>
> For some context, this is about upb, a JIT protobuf implementation
> based on DynASM, written for Google, the home of protobufs...
>
> https://github.com/haberman/upb
>
> -- Pierre-Yves
>