Re: Firefox support for Lua?

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 01:22, Alek Paunov <alex@declera.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-18 02:59, Paul Merrell wrote:
> >
> > My current question is about the Firefox support. Is there anything
> > more recent than Moonshine? It's last code commitment was in 2015.
> > <https://github.com/stpettersens/mshine>
> >
>
> Sure - https://fengari.io . It is a long time, supported effort by some
> core Lua community members. You can also take a look to the introductory
> article [1], about the differences with other Lua in Browser
> implementations.
>
> [1] https://hackernoon.com/why-we-rewrote-lua-in-js-a66529a8278d

There is nothing firefox specific about fengari; I don't think it
would be genuine to claim there was.
The core of fengari is porting the PUC-Rio Lua implementation to
Javascript; which can run in any javascript environment.