Re: Message passing in Lua

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Personally, I prefer mqlua, which is Lua paired with ZeroMQ.


> Am 21.04.2021 um 09:53 schrieb Oliver <oschmidt-mailinglists@gmx.de>:
> 
> On 10.04.21 16:12, Alby wrote:
>> Does Lua support (natively or through a module) anything like
>> (asynchronous) message passing between objects, in the style of the Io
>> programming language (which is now defunct, too bad).
> 
> you may have a look at "mtstates" ( https://github.com/osch/lua-mtstates ): with
> this library it's possible to pass messages to "objects" (i.e. lua states) that
> are executed on any system thread as you want. "mtstates" is a rather low level
> library that can be combined with any multi threading library and message
> passing mechanism (e.g. "llthreads2" and/or "mtmsg"). If combined with
> coroutines, convenient higher level constructs could be build upon this.
> 
> Best regards,
> Oliver