clx

I agree Numba is great. The reason I stay clear of Python is because the Python2 → Python3 transition burned me; the bureaucrats at Debian decided that, since my open source project had one Python2 script in it I wrote many years ago, I had to update my code to make that script a Python3 script. A very toxic and arrogant attitude; old versions of languages should not be killed like that when there is so much code written in the language, and when it can be very difficult [1] to convert a script from Python2 to Python3. Lua5.1 is much more stable by the virtue that the only updates it code gets are very minor changes to fix any lingering security issues it has (the last Lua5.1 CVE is from 2014). [1] I guess these days a LLM can do the grunt work of converting a Python2 script to Python3. [2] There is a project which converts Lua in to na

FYI https://github.com/samyeyo/clx/releases/download/v0.2.0/clx-... Extracts to current directory instead of clx-linux-x86_64

Hi HN, clx is an ahead-of-time compiler for standard Lua that generates C++20 and produces standalone native executables through GCC, Clang or MSVC. The project started as an experiment to see whether modern C++ could be used as a portable compiler backend instead of LLVM or direct machine code generation. The generated code is then compiled and optimized by the host toolchain. The latest release replaces the previous NaN-tagged value representation with a new shadow-types implementation, adds full int64 support, improves native arithmetic code generation and adds ARM64 macOS coroutine support. Performance is typically much faster than the Lua interpreter and can outperform LuaJIT on some computation-heavy workloads while remaining fully ahead-of-time compiled. The repository also contains graphical examples written in Lua, including a Po