Fengari – Lua for the Browser • Hacker News Board

nanna wrote: post #3

stavros wrote: post #2

This looks nice, and it looks like JS interop works well? Also, as a Greek, I find the name very clever.

Mind explaining the name?

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Re: Fengari – Lua for the Browser

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Post by drekipus » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:37 AM UTC

After I found fennel-lang I thought "all I need now is a browser that runs Lua" and now here we are, I hope they work together well.

Thanks for this OP

Re: Fengari – Lua for the Browser

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:37 AM UTC

nanna wrote: post #3

stavros wrote: post #2

This looks nice, and it looks like JS interop works well? Also, as a Greek, I find the name very clever.

Mind explaining the name?

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Re: Fengari – Lua for the Browser

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Post by gedeon » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:37 AM UTC

nanna wrote: post #3

stavros wrote: post #2

This looks nice, and it looks like JS interop works well? Also, as a Greek, I find the name very clever.

Mind explaining the name?

"lua" is moon in portuguese, and "fengari" is moon in greek

Re: Fengari – Lua for the Browser

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Post by thescribbblr » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:46 AM UTC

How can I make a http request

Re: Fengari – Lua for the Browser

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Post by bayesian_horse » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:51 AM UTC

drekipus wrote: post #5

After I found fennel-lang I thought "all I need now is a browser that runs Lua" and now here we are, I hope they work together well. Thanks for this OP

Maybe ClojureScript is an alternative.

Re: Fengari – Lua for the Browser

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Post by bayesian_horse » Sun, Feb 20, 2022, 9:53 AM UTC

For those looking for powerful async coroutines in the browser: The combination of typescript+redux+redux-saga is also quite powerful.

Redux-saga uses generator coroutines to handle all sorts of asynchronous tasks.