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13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2014-07-09 · latest 2025-06-30

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  1. …the server and the client. To that end, I've most recently been hacking on Robert Virding's Luerl ( https://github.com/rvirding/luerl ), working to adapt the Lua test suite to chase down some small compatibility issues between PUC Lua and…
    comment by cmdrk · 2025-06-30 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
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    Luerl – An Implementation of Lua in Erlang
    story by sbuttgereit · 2021-12-27 · 14 comments
  3. Already exists, written by none other than Virding himself: https://github.com/rvirding/luerl
    comment by patrec · 2020-09-12 · in Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP
  4. …for Rubyists, but there are some other paths to discover BEAM. Check out: Luerl – Lua on Erlang https://github.com/rvirding/luerl LFE - Lisp Flavoured Erlang https://github.com/rvirding/lfe
    comment by josefrichter · 2020-09-07 · in Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
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    Luerl – a Lua 5.2 engine implemented in Erlang/OTP
    story by fermuch · 2018-11-16 · 0 comments
  6. …sure what's meant about __metatable, either. I merely quoted directly from the project website: https://github.com/rvirding/luerl I assume they don't fully implement some of the metatable semantics, such as __gc on tables or operator…
    comment by wahern · 2017-06-23 · in Erlang/OTP 20.0
  7. Please don't forget about Luerl: Lua has GREAT support inside the BEAM VM ecosystem https://github.com/rvirding/luerl
    comment by jchassoul · 2017-06-21 · in Erlang/OTP 20.0
  8. There's Lua on the BEAM https://github.com/rvirding/luerl no need for Python.
    comment by jchassoul · 2017-04-09 · in Erlang Performance Lab
  9. it's there https://github.com/rvirding/luerl
    comment by etiene · 2017-01-25 · in Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine
  10. Is that what https://github.com/rvirding/luerl is doing in the erlang VM? From the docs: > It should give you a Lua environment that allows you to effortlessly run tens of thousands of Lua processes in parallel, leveraging the famed…
    comment by safewayclubcard · 2016-07-12 · in Squirrel Programming Language
  11. …edit: Wow, and many of them seem to actually be by the same rvirding who authored lfe: https://github.com/rvirding/luerl https://github.com/rvirding/erlog
    comment by akavel · 2016-03-17 · in Lisp Flavoured Erlang 1.0 released after 8 years of development
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    Luerl – An implementation of Lua in Erlang
    story by johlo · 2015-08-18 · 10 comments
  13. …Lua and basic Python integration all in various stages of maturity: http://lfe.io/ http://joxa.org/ https://github.com/rvirding/luerl https://github.com/rvirding/erlog http://erlport.org/docs/python.html (integration with Python not Python…
    comment by rdtsc · 2014-07-09 · in How I Start: Elixir