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d33 on Nov 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lua VM, on the Web

I'm surprised nobody said it here - it would be even cooler with webassembly! Imagine writing Lua code instead of JS...

EDIT: though now that I look at it, it's already possible:

https://daurnimator.github.io/lua.vm.js/script_example.html

daurnimator on Nov 27, 2016 | [–]

webassembly gains lua.vm.js nothing: it's just a bytecode form of asm.js

The big thing lua.vm.js needs is weakrefs https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs

john_reel on Nov 24, 2016 | | [–]

Yes please! Any ETAs on webassembly landing?

etiene on Nov 24, 2016 | [–]

Im waiting for this natively, anxiously

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