Re: Lua C API can't be used from other languages without C wrappers

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 7:39 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2018-02-18 17:23 GMT+02:00 Soni "They/Them" L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
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>> 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]
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> It works perfectly with Free Pascal too.
>
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaInFreePascal

+1. Free Pascal is on my todo list...

>> 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!
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> Would not that be more a defect of the FFI than of the Lua API?
>