Integrate MoonScript with LuaJIT?

[VinnyVicious]

I have a very small project that uses LuaJIT along with my C++ application for scripting. I would love to integrate MoonScript directly with it, so I don't need any pre-compilation step and LuaJIT just parses MoonScript files as if they were Lua files. Is there anyway of doing this, or is the CLI tool and compilation step absolutely necessary?

[refi64]

Howl does this, it can compile MoonScript either ahead of time (for built-in files) or at runtime (for user added bundles). I think most of the relevant code is in init.lua.

[johnae]

spook does this as well.
See https://github.com/johnae/spook/blob/b407ea5b96d50d0ff1f2878c40be39e64ab68ff8/init.moon#L64
and
https://github.com/johnae/spook/blob/b407ea5b96d50d0ff1f2878c40be39e64ab68ff8/init.moon#L154.

Spook, when compiled, becomes a single executable capable of running either lua or moonscript directly which sounds like what you're after.

[VinnyVicious]

Precisely what I was looking for. Thanks for the links, guys. I was looking for a solution in C++, but I get what you're doing in Lua and it's pretty clever.

[leafo]

Closing this then. Not that this issue is a problem, but if you'd like to chat with other moonscript users we have a discord: https://discord.gg/Y75ZXrD