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Lua is perfect for Redbean because it's tiny and made for embedding, which is this exactly use case. Something like TypeScript would require a transpiler to JS
by brabel 2y ago
Lua is perfect for Redbean because it's tiny and made for embedding, which is this exactly use case. Something like TypeScript would require a transpiler to JS and a JS runtime, which as far as I know, even the smallest one would be much bigger than Lua. And Lua has well defined semantics to call C and be called by C, which may be hard to do with JS/TS.
- DrNosferatu 2y agoAny examples and good tutorials on how to best go about it?
- brabel 2y agoBest go about using Redbean? The project is well documented: https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/ Just go through it, it answers all questions you may come up with IMO. Or you mean about embedding Lua? The official docs are great too: https://www.lua.org/pil/24.html https://www.lua.org/pil/24.html If you prefer a tutorial, there's plenty as Lua has been around for a long time. Search on Youtube for example and there's lots of videos. The top hit on DDG for me was https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-c/ https://lucasklassmann.com/blog/2019-02-02-embedding-lua-in-... which seems pretty straightforward to follow.