Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua

Re:Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua by laarc on Monday November 30, 2015 @06:27PM (#10652636)

Terra seemed promising when I ran across it a month ago. Does anyone know if it's possible to use LuaJIT's ffi module while writing Terra code?

What I mean is, there is a large body of existing code that I'd like to run alongside Terra. But if the choice is Terra xor LuaJIT, this becomes difficult.

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Re:Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua by an_ko on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:47AM (#10656189)

You might be looking for http://terralang.org/api.html § Managing Terra Values from Lua. Quoting:

> We provide wrappers around LuaJIT’s FFI API that allow you to allocate and manipulate Terra objects directly from Lua.

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Re:Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua by corysama on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @11:49AM (#10656807)

You can use Lua, Terra or both at runtime. The Lua part is LuaJIT including the ffi. The Terra part is LLVM and can link directly to C (maybe C++?). Lua can be used as a metaprogramming system to produce a static Terra .o or exe. Or Lua can be used as a runtime that can JIT and invoke Terra functions on the fly.

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