Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a while to load)

Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by ajx on Friday November 26, 2010 @12:55AM (#1941732)

another interpreted language running inside of an interpreted language... sweet. All we need now is to write a perl interpreter in Lua and then run it inside of the javascript Lua interpreter and we'll really see the scripts slow down to a crawl.

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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by stcredzero on Friday November 26, 2010 @01:44AM (#1941779)

It would still run about as well as Tcl. [ducks]

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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by die_sekte on Friday November 26, 2010 @02:09AM (#1941804)

Lets add an Io interpreter to the mix!

(For those who don't know: Io is very powerful, but also very slow.)

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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by draegtun on Friday November 26, 2010 @07:11AM (#1942213)

Steve Dekorte (creator of Io) has already been thinking about an Io implementation on top of Javascript.

ref: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iolanguage/message/12526

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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by die_sekte on Friday November 26, 2010 @09:07AM (#1942396)

Should be a relatively good fit, with both languages having prototypal oo. I wonder how he would implement the metaprogramming parts of Io.

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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by draegtun on Monday December 06, 2010 @07:35AM (#1974941)

I see its actually more than just thinking because he has a repo called "Io port to Javascript (node.js)" on github: https://github.com/stevedekorte/oia

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