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Experiments with the lua bytecode format that grew to be the luac command line tool

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Experiments with the lua bytecode format that grew to be the luac command line tool

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daurnimator did an archeology to find all the original Lua source code development history and convert it into a Git repository for easier viewing. Main source: https://github.com/lua/lua Tests: https://github.com/lua/tests luac: https://github.com/lua/luac manual: https://github.com/lua/manual His talk: https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Daurnimator.pdf

At the lua workshop this year I spoke about my efforts to convert the historical source code of lua into git form. Until now this history was private to the lua team. I finally put the last pieces together and have now pushed the results to github. It's split into 4 repositories: - Main source: https://github.com/lua/lua - Tests: https://github.com/lua/tests - luac: https://github.com/lua/luac - manual: https://github.com/lua/manual See my talk's notes for more info: https://www.lua.org/wshop16/Daurnimator.pdf