Re: Lua is everywhere on iPhone (was: Goodbye Lua on iPhone?)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Robert G. Jakabosky
<bobby@sharedrealm.com> wrote:
> Just last night I finished most of the work of porting my llvm-lua project to
> a new [1] 'slua' project that directly generates C code instead of
> translating Lua bytecodes into LLVM IR code.

I think this idea is definitely doing the rounds, have a look at the
LtU comments:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3905#comment

Vaughn writes:
> The feeling I get is that one could probably write in whatever
> language one likes as long as Apple doesn’t get annoyed, most likely
> if the app gets ported to Android.

Ah, but here's a devilish possibililty: what if someone does an
Objective-C/IPhone to Android translator?

You will annoy them and keep to the letter of the law ;)

steve d.

PS. Objective-C might be an interesting target for a Lua translator,
because the language does late binding.