eLua – Embedded power, driven by Lua

Re:eLua – Embedded power, driven by Lua by fest on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:20PM (#8540897)

In this context, they mean embedded devices (typically running machine code on non-x86 architecture CPUs: ARM, AVR, etc).

They are either providing means to compile Lua code to machine code (or an interpreter/VM running on controller and executing Lua code). Also, they have unified hardware abstraction layer for all the different architectures and controlls supported, so that operating peripherals feels the same on all platforms.

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Re:eLua – Embedded power, driven by Lua by tiffanyh on Friday October 31, 2014 @04:57PM (#8541093)

>> "In this context, they mean embedded devices (typically running machine code on non-x86 architecture CPUs: ARM, AVR, etc)."

Sorry, but I'm still not understanding the value.

I'll paste an excerpt from Lua official website:

"Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. All you need to build Lua is an ANSI C compiler (gcc is a popular one). Lua also compiles cleanly as C++."[1]

Even LuaJIT has non-x86 support [2].

[1] http://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.1

[2] http://luajit.org/performance.html

edit: typo

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