Ravi (a Lua 5.3 dialect) 1.0 Beta-1 Release 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 1.0 Beta-1 release of Ravi is now
available. Additionally, work is ongoing to create a distribution of
Ravi that includes a selection of high quality third-party libraries
(https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro).

This release is aligned with Lua 5.3.5.

The main highlights of this release are:

* The new JIT backend based on a customized version of Eclipse OMR
(https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/nj) is available.

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