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- Subject: Re: Lua C API can't be used from other languages without C wrappers
- From: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:39:28 +0200
2018-02-18 17:23 GMT+02:00 Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> It was recently brought to my attention that the Lua C API is strictly a C
> API, and not as universal as some ppl claim it to be.[1]
It works perfectly with Free Pascal too.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaInFreePascal
> More specifically, it's unsafe to directly call this API from any sort of FFI!
> This includes LuaJIT FFI, Python CFFI, any of the many FFI wrappers for Java, and so on!
Would not that be more a defect of the FFI than of the Lua API?
