[ANN] Ravi (a Lua 5.3 dialect) Alpha Release 0.24 with LLVM and Eclipse OMR JIT compilation support

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

Ravi (http://ravilang.org) is a dialect of Lua 5.3 with LLVM and
Eclipse OMR based JIT compilers and limited optional static typing. I
am pleased to announce that the alpha 0.24 release of Ravi is now
available. Additionally, work is ongoing on creating a distribution of
Ravi that includes high quality third-party libraries
(https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro).

This release is aligned with Lua 5.3.4.

The main highlight of this release is that a new JIT backend based on
[a customized version of Eclipse
OMR](https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/nj) has been added. Note that
this is in development and this is an early preview release.

The main advantages of the new Eclipse OMR JIT backend are:

* It is much smaller in size compared to LLVM
* It was designed to be a JIT rather than an AOT compiler
* Like LLVM it is an optimizing JIT compiler
* It is under active development and battle tested as part of the OpenJ9 project

For further details on how to build Ravi with Eclipse OMR support please visit:
* https://the-ravi-programming-language.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ravi-omr-instructions.html

For general information regarding Ravi please visit:
* https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
* https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro

All feedback welcome!

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu