Pluto

I actually came across https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto and it seems to be all the things you would want from Luau but without the connection to Roblox

I looked into the jump table optimization. The normal Lua version is here[1] and it uses the opcode as a index into a static array to jump to the label. The “faster” Pluto version is here[2] and it just uses a switch statement on the labels. I would naively assume that these would compile to the same code because the lua version is just manually creating the jump table and the pluto version is leaving it to the compiler. How could the compiler optimize the switch so that would outperform the manual jump table (by a decent margin)? [1] https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/main/src/ljumptabgcc... [2] https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/main/src/ljumptab.h

"Interesting" is not the word I would use for that Where does `$file` come from in `for_each_obj` <https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/0.8.0/scripts/compil...> ... from `scandir` of "src" of course: https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto/blob/0.8.0/scripts/common... Here's hoping you didn't want to alter the intermediate output directory away from "int" or change the CPPFLAGS for your own setup I'm certainly no php ninja, but I'd put good money that a similarly homegrown bash build system would be about an equal number of lines of code but 1/10000th the WTF and not require an apt-get install before trying to contribute to the project