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SHOW HN2019
141points
29comments
#317of 2,195 in 2019
Top 15%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting work on LuaJIT bytecode and VM internals
From 2 comments
This is very interesting work! I am poking around CPython and Python bytecode to learn about compilation/VM/interpretation and I was thinking about writing cose directly in…
rsrsrs86 on HNI really like the streams and resources you put up, Luke. Thanks for clarifying. Studio is so cool, I've been looking at maybe hacking it to work with my spreadsheet compiler,…
microcolonel on HN
Objections
Not suited to constrained embedded devices needing FFI
From 1 comment
I think primarily it’s the ffi I would be missing. This would get me a turing complete language but set up as an executable it’s wrong for me.
SlowRobotAhead on HN
Links to related tvmjit project were dead
From 1 comment
404 on all GitHub links
minxomat on HN
Requests
Write an editorial for a Lua newsletter
From 1 comment
Would you be interested in writing a short editorial on this for the Lua Digest newsletter? https://luadigest.netlify.app
luadigest on HN
Questions
What is LuaJIT's maintenance status?
From 2 comments
Tangential, but what's LuaJIT's maintenance status?
kzrdude on HNI was also interested, here's the latest update: https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Regular-releases-for-luajit-from-the-new-repo-and-future-roadmap It doesn't look like…
faizshah on HN
Is RaptorJIT abandoned?
From 1 comment
Is RaptorJIT abandoned? It seems like they got a couple optimizations, deleted most of the dynasm backends, then gave up.
microcolonel on HN
Alternatives named
tvmjit
From 1 comment
You are missing https://libraries.io/github/fperrad/tvmjit which adds a nice macro and OO layer (in lisp syntax) on top of LuaJIT. A much nicer way to use this superior VM.
rurban on HN
RaptorJIT
From 1 comment
Is RaptorJIT abandoned? It seems like they got a couple optimizations, deleted most of the dynasm backends, then gave up.
microcolonel on HN
eLua, NodeMCU, Lua-RTOS-ESP32, MicroPython
From 2 comments
I don't think this work fits your needs. Have a look at something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NodeMCU or http://www.eluaproject.net/ or…
Rochus on HNThe problem with eLua and others is that they either try and replace C or they focus on the headers/registers/peripherals of the micro. Design it to be the environment you do all…
SlowRobotAhead on HN