Why we rewrote Lua in JS

[giann]

A post about a project I've been working on with daurnimator for the past months.

[mpeterv]

This is a nice introductory post, I'd love to read more. In particular, it would be great to have benchmarks against alternatives mentioned in the post. It would also be nice to read about what problems arose (why is compliance only at 99%) and what are advantages and disadvantages of JS as a host language as opposed to C.

[giann]

99% is just the current progress. The missing features are io functions that don't translate well in Node. But it's not available in the browser so really it's 100% if you're in the browser.

We'll certainly write a follow up on the how later :)

[daurnimator]

There's also the missing lua_gc functionality

[giann]

Fixed typo and changed spread operator to vararg expression

[Etiene]

Great post! it's published now 💃