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Lua VM running in a WASM environment

10 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2017-03-18 · latest 2021-04-24

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  1. Can confirm that Lua does run in WASM in the browser: https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if Lua had zero based indices and saw a bit broader adoption. It's such an easy language to…
    comment by vvanders · 2021-04-24 · in Wasm3 compiles itself (using LLVM/Clang compiled to WASM)
  2. …[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript [3] https://luajit.org/ [4] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by vvanders · 2019-07-11 · in Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android
  3. …Heck I "ported" Lua to WASM[1] and it was pretty snappy compared to what I was expecting. [1] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by vvanders · 2018-07-14 · in WebAssembly is more than the web
  4. …Lua to WebAssembly. Quick search reveals at least two results: https://scriptinghelpers.org/lua https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2018-04-02 · in Why we rewrote Lua in JS (2017)
  5. …what it's worth, here's Lua (which implements a garbage collector in its runtime) in WebAssembly: https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by boomlinde · 2017-11-14 · in WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
  6. …API definitely needs some clean up. This looks much nicer from a JS integration perspective. [1] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by vvanders · 2017-11-04 · in Fengari: Lua for the Browser
  7. …That said I think we well get there and for a certain limited use cases it's already there. [1] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by vvanders · 2017-09-22 · in Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
  8. …[4] http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51... [5] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by Confiks · 2017-07-26 · in Show HN: Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft
  9. There is also one in WebAssembly: https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
    comment by NiLSPACE · 2017-04-11 · in Show HN: Glua, a Full-Featured Lua VM for Nodejs and the Browser
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    Lua VM running in a WASM environment
    story by vvanders · 2017-03-18 · 57 comments