Re: LLVM bindings for Lua

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 17 August 2015 at 03:55, 书呆彭, Peng Yi <nerditation@outlook.com> wrote:
> you might want to borrow some idea from terra, see [1] for a simple example.
>
> imho, LLVM's API is, by definition, too low-level. I don't think I would
> like
> to write a compiler in Lua using such low level API. I just can't keep
> the contexts in mind. I'd rather deal with things like AST or similar.
>

Yes but ... Ravi is already a JIT compiled language and being Lua -
one can dynamically build and compile Lua functions anyway.

An LLVM binding has a different purpose - it basically makes the power
of LLVM available to Lua users.

Regards