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An ECMAscript framework to compile and run Lua code, allowing Lua to run in a browser or in Flash

9 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2012-07-22 · latest 2017-03-18

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  1. …- unmaintained - https://github.com/logiceditor-com/lua5.1.js - https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js
    comment by daurnimator · 2017-03-18 · in Lua VM running in a WASM environment
  2. …There are some but they are fairly limited by this. This is the main implementation https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js
    comment by justincormack · 2013-06-21 · in Lua.vm.js
  3. …JS, converting Lua to JS, and code generation from bytecode. https://github.com/creationix/brozula https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js (and others, I had a list somewhere) Quite a few companies are using Lua->JS as a way of doing write…
    comment by justincormack · 2013-06-21 · in Lua.vm.js
  4. …WebGL typed array thing) to read back my binary project & asset files. I then use Lua.js ( https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js/ ) to convert the Lua scripts into JS at load time and mrdoob's Three.js (threejs.org) to render it all.
    comment by elisee · 2013-04-26 · in Craftstud.io - A Game to Make Games (now in beta)
  5. …every environment. [1] https://github.com/graue/luasynth [2] https://github.com/graue/synth [3] https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js [4] https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js/issues/13#issuecomment-...
    comment by graue · 2013-03-09 · in Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts
  6. Well, you can write client-side web apps in Lua: https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js Unfortunately, there is a bug in Lua.js and it doesn't support the preferred method of creating modules[1]. For this reason, I've yet to get a…
    comment by graue · 2013-03-09 · in Lua: Good, bad, and ugly parts
  7. …interested to see the author's thoughts on Lua.js, translating Lua into semi-equivalent JavaScript: https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js Or is this more of an educational than practical workshop?
    comment by cmwelsh · 2012-12-13 · in Developing a Lua VM in JavaScript
  8. …at making it into a browser engine. It's lightweight - the compiled binary is around 120KB. [1] https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js
    comment by cmwelsh · 2012-09-24 · in I Am Worried About The Future Of Python
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    Lua to Javascript translator
    story by Bambo · 2012-07-22 · 27 comments