Re: ​Dead Batteries

[Italo Maia <italo.maia@...>]

LuaJIT is pretty much the holy grail for lua. A lot of big libraries rely heavily on it, like openresty, moonscript, love. Likely because it is super fast and light on resources. 

The best way to make sure all our big tooling follow lua syntax updates is literally to make lua the fastest interpreted language, so it can became a solid enterprise choice, which means support from big companies. 

Or you can hunt down yo uh r necessities specifically. 

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019, 16:45 Gavin Holt <holtgavin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Ką - Thanks for the ideas but both LuaPower and uLua binary distributions are Luajit/ffi based and I can't extract a usable dll to call from Lua 5.3.

winapi.dll from Steve Donovan would be very helpful and Steve did kindly release compiled binaries - back in Jan 2012 (http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-01/msg00263.html). No sign of Lua 5.3 binaries at this time.

Kind Regards Gavin Holt

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 14:16, Ką Mykolas <kamicc@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:42 PM Gavin Holt <holtgavin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Q2. Is there any movement to maintain a distribution of pre-compiled libraries? Perhaps like LuaPower (https://luapower.com/) or better the comprehensive IUP distribution maintained by Antonio Scuri (https://sourceforge.net/projects/iup/files/3.28/).
>

For binary distribution... well, that's a tricky part. Just stumbled
on to uLua: https://ulua.io/index.html
I suppose it's worth a spin. And again, no idea how well does it work.