Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler

Re:Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler by friggeri on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @04:57PM (#3160379)

The fun thing about transpilers is that you can chain them together. Waiting to see some C stuff ported to Lua using Emscripten via JS.

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Re:Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler by vorg on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @05:19PM (#3160477)

Perhaps the best way to write a transpiler so there's no bugs is to write two of them at the same time, i.e. in this case Lua-to-JS and JS-to-Lua. Maybe it's easier to catch bugs.

This mirrors the idea of writing a compiler for a new language in itself as soon as possible.

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Re:Colony, an experimental JavaScript-to-Lua compiler by beagle3 on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @11:24PM (#3161488)

Get a Clue: http://cluecc.sourceforge.net/

Decent timing from LuaJIT1 when it was generating "dirty" Lua bytecode.

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