extrordinaire

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   by extrordinaire 3mo ago

   Author here. Quick clarification because the HN title is easy to misread: Moonstone is *not* (*EXTRA BOLD*) a Lua VM/runtime implemented in Zig. It is a Lua environment and package manager written in Zig. It installs/selects Lua-f
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   by extrordinaire 3mo ago

   Good question. I’d say the Lua toolchain is still fragmented rather than having one obvious “state of the art.”, the one that got closest to that is Lux. The established center is still LuaRocks for packages. Around it, people use different
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   by extrordinaire 3mo ago

   Contributions are greatly appreciated. Feel free to contact this email maximoverzini@gmail.com if you'd like to collaborate! To give some context: Moonstone is currently under heavy, messy(getting better with time), active development.
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   by extrordinaire 3mo ago

   More than one platform, different arch/ABI qualify as cross-platform, it is not stated as omni-platform... Zig CC (LLVM backed) is widely used across for materializing first-class C modules. It aims to leverage the Lua ecosystem then i