raptorjit-ljs

For others interested in alternative syntax to the Lua VM/API sometime ago I've created LJS https://github.com/mingodad/ljs and also https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit, I've also included an utility lua2ljs program based on the Lemon parser and re2c that convert Lua scripts to LJS with line by line synchronization https://github.com/mingodad/ljs/tree/master/lua2ljs, to test it I've also translated a few non trivial projects (https://github.com/mingodad/ZeroBraneStudioLJS , https://github.com/mingodad/raptorjit-ljs, https://github.com/mingodad/snabb-ljs, https://github.com/mingodad/premake-core/tree/ljs, https://github.com/mingodad/CorsixTH-ljs). I'm proud of it and thankfull to the Lua/Luajit projects.

I've made changes to the Lua/LuaJIT lexer/Parser to have a C like syntax and a program to convert Lua syntax to LJS syntax you can see it in the repositories shown bellow, the C api and language semantics remain the same. - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.4 - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.1 - https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit - https://github.com/mingodad/raptorjit-ljs - https://github.com/mingodad/CorsixTH-ljs - https://github.com/mingodad/snabb-ljs - https://github.com/mingodad/ZeroBraneStudioLJS

FYI, the link for https://github.com/mingodad/raptorjit-ljs is down. Congrats for the project, transpilers are great fun. An impactful project and a logical next step would be writing a new version of Moonshine (http://moonshinejs.org/) or writing a modern full-blown Lua to JS transpiler.

Author here if you have any question. Also if you have done any enhancement to Lua/LuaJIT and want help or talk about it I'm glad to hear from you. There is an parser/transpiler using lemon/re2c that can transpile almost any Lua source to LJS see here https://github.com/mingodad/ljs/tree/master/lua2ljs . Here are some non trivial projects converted to LJS: ljsjit at https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit ljs-5.1 at https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.1 ZeroBraneStudio port at https://github.com/mingodad/ZeroBraneStudioLJS raptorjit-ljs at https://github.com/mingodad/raptorjit-ljs snabb-ljs at https://github.com/mingodad/snabb-ljs premake5-ljs at https://github.com/mingodad/premake-core/tree/ljs The next steps that I have in mind now is to add the remaining syntax sugar like: -C/C++/Java/Javascript for loop -Switch statement -Class statement -co