INInitEnabler·Mar 18, 2024Submission
Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers
90 points · Open discussiondibyendumajumdar
ravi
C2015–2024
dibyendumajumdar / ravi
ravi
Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers
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Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesHow does it compare to
a. Ravi https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
b. Moonscript https://moonscript.org/
c. Luajit https://luajit.org/
d. Moonjit https://github.com/moonjit/moonjit
e. Terra https://terralang.org/
What is the advantage? Can I use lua code verbatim?
In Nelua Programming LanguageRavi: A dialect of Lua with optional static typing and JIT
87 points · Open discussionAlso Ravi[0]: "Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing and JIT compilers"
[0] https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
In Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax with TypesLua 5.3 Bytecode Reference/Guide
1 points · Open discussion"Ravi is a derivative/dialect of Lua 5.3 with limited optional static typing and an LLVM powered JIT compiler."
https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
In My love-hate relationship with LuaJIT (2015)"but at the cost of doing considerably less optimization"
That's arguable. Ravi[1] is a Lua implemented with an LLVM-based JIT. The benchmarks here[2] compare runtime performance of Ravi vs. LuaJIT. The Ravi timings don't include compilation time, the LuaJIT timings do. Sometimes LuaJIT siginficantly outperforms Ravi, sometimes it's on par, sometimes worse. But the results don't suggest that there is less (effective) optimisation going on.
[1] https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
[2] http://the-ravi-programming-language.readthedocs.io/en/lates...
In NativeJIT – JIT compilation of expressions involving C data structuresSee also, https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi
In LLVM based Just-in-Time-Compiler for C++Ravi: Lua with Static Typing and LLVM/libgccjit JIT
4 points · Open discussionRavi – A Lua Dialect with LLVM-Based JIT Compilation
3 points · Open discussion