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Lua with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax

8 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2018-12-30 · latest 2026-06-25

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  1. For others interested in alternative syntax to the Lua VM/API sometime ago I've created LJS https://github.com/mingodad/ljs and also https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit , I've also included an utility lua2ljs program based on the Lemon…
    comment by mingodad · 2026-06-25 · in LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
  2. …can see it in the repositories shown bellow, the C api and language semantics remain the same. - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.4 - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.1 -…
    comment by mingodad · 2024-12-27 · in Lua is so underrated
  3. For a C/C++ like syntax there is also https://github.com/mingodad/ljs and ljsjit and also https://github.com/mingodad/squilu a variant of Squirrel with more C/C++/Java/CSharp/Javascript syntax.
    comment by mingodad · 2021-05-25 · in My experience binding a couple of scripting engines with C++
  4. I created Lua with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax https://github.com/mingodad/ljs Also forked a scripting language https://github.com/mingodad/squilu and extended it to accept a pseudo C++/Java/CSharp/Typescript syntax to make easy to reuse…
    comment by mingodad · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
  5. Maybe this https://github.com/mingodad/ljs and this https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit does to some degree what you have in mind ?
    comment by mingodad · 2020-07-16 · in What's New in Lua 5.4
  6. Also there is https://github.com/mingodad/ljs that changed the parser to accept a Javascript like syntax, including https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit for LuaJit and includes a tool to automatically convert lua to ljs…
    comment by mingodad · 2020-07-16 · in What's New in Lua 5.4
  7. …is an parser/transpiler using lemon/re2c that can transpile almost any Lua source to LJS see here https://github.com/mingodad/ljs/tree/master/lua2ljs . Here are some non trivial projects converted to LJS: ljsjit at…
    comment by mingodad · 2018-12-30 · in Show HN: Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax