Upgrade Lua to 5.2 or LuaJIT

[raphaelcohn]

It'd would be very useful to able to use Lua 5.2 (or the recently release 5.3) to write Lua writers (sic) in. There are minor compatibility changes, but these shouldn't be issues for nearly all scripts.

More valuable, though, would be to allow the use of LuaJIT. This lets authors of Lua writers ship code that calls C APIs without any need to build and dynamically link libraries. For instance, one could ship a Lua writer with a built in binding to libjpeg to do on-the-fly jpeg munging.

[jgm]

You should bring this up at osa1/hslua.
I'm just relying on the existing Haskell bindings.

+++ Raphael Cohn [Oct 15 15 04:46 ]:

It'd would be very useful to able to use Lua 5.2 (or the recently
release 5.3) to write Lua writers (sic) in. There are minor
compatibility changes, but these shouldn't be issues for nearly all
scripts.

More valuable, though, would be to allow the use of LuaJIT. This lets
authors of Lua writers ship code that calls C APIs without any need to
build and dynamically link libraries. For instance, one could ship a
Lua writer with a built in binding to libjpeg to do on-the-fly jpeg
munging.

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References

1. Upgrade Lua to 5.2 or LuaJIT #2452

[raphaelcohn]

Looks like the existing Haskell bindings are going to stay with Lua 5.1 for the time being: hslua/hslua#5. That said, it seems to be possible to compile hslua to use a system-wide LuaJIT (indeed, their examples actually show using it with pandoc)! I'll take a look at modifying the Homebrew recipe for Mac to see if it's feasible.

[jgm]

Can this issue be closed?

[raphaelcohn]

Ok
On 21 Oct 2015 05:09, "John MacFarlane" notifications@github.com wrote:

Can this issue be closed?

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