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Re: Using Lua with C++

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Post by aa-jv » Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 9:03 AM UTC

rleigh wrote: post #40

aa-jv wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're welcome - what are you working on, may I ask? Common interests, and all ..

In vitro medical diagnostics, using microfluidics, fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging.

Neat. Would love to know more about how you're using Lua in that context ..

Re: Using Lua with C++

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Post by lzralbu » Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

MrOwnPut wrote: post #21

For those interested in using Lua or a similar syntax I curated a list of typed Lua-related projects: - https://luau-lang.org (Lua derivative, interpreted / sandboxed, from Roblox) - https://terralang.org (Lua JIT compiler) - https://nelua.io (Lua-syntax -> C compiler (WASM too w/ Emscripten) - https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene (Lua AOT compiler) - https://github.com/teal-language/tl (Teal -> Lua compiler) - ht…

There's also https://moonscript.org/(Lua's CoffeeScript on author's words).

Re: Using Lua with C++

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Post by rleigh » Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

aa-jv wrote: post #41

rleigh wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In vitro medical diagnostics, using microfluidics, fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging.

Neat. Would love to know more about how you're using Lua in that context ..

Currently just starting with a very simple prototype, which is a very basic action scheduler for running analysis workflows. It will become more capable as more system functionality is wrapped and exposed. That ease of wrapping and sandboxing the Lua environment is one of the features I really like about Lua.