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| Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua [pdf] (inf.puc-rio.br) | ||
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| dottrap Oct 10, 2021 | on: Python and Lua (2019) | context |
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sitkack Jun 2, 2019 | on: Storm 2.0 | context
See my response inspired by your comment and agumonkey here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074532 I am drawn to the idea of scalable languages or languages with zero friction for interop. This thread on Pallene is interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038619 |
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If you want even more speed for Lua, Lua's new experimental sister language, Pallene is really exciting.
Pallene is Lua with strong types, designed for the purpose of being able to (AOT) generate faster and native code.
It's compiler design also has deep knowledge of the Lua implementation, so it short circuits the formal Lua/C API so crossing the Lua/C language boundary in Pallene is even faster (and Lua's is already good...much less overhead than crossing in Python).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038619