Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com)

But there are other ways, e.g. run the logic isolated within gvisor/firecracker/kata.

[1] github.com/microsoft/CCF under src/js/core

I was looking for something like Pyodide but runnable from Python, but that doesn't seem to exist quite yet. I can get a Python interpreter to run in wasmtime, but that doesn't have the Pyodide goodies like Micropip etc. Sadly, Pyodide itself seems fully married to JS, as it compiles to Emscripten and not WASI.

I'm almost tempted to just go with a small binary embedding V8 and running Pyodide inside V8 isolates or something.

(I know I can do this via Firecracker / GVisor / whatever, that is not the solution I'm looking for.)

And +1000 on linking to your own (or any other well-written) blog.

Well, now we can run this thing in WASM and get, I imagine, sane runtime errors :)

Real people have to sleep at some point!

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Come to think of it I don't think I can name a single mainstream language other than Lua that wasn't invented in the G7.

I see this argument a lot with Lua. People simply don't like its syntax because we live in a world where C style syntax is more common, and the departure from that seem unnecessary. So going "well actually, in 1992 when Lua was made, C style syntax was more unfamiliar" won't help, because in the current year, C syntax is more familiar.

The first language I learned was Lua, and because of that it seems to have a special place in my heart or something. The reason for this is because in around 2006, the sandbox game "Garry's Mod" was extended with scripting support and chose Lua for seemingly the same reasons as Redis.

The game's author famously didn't like Lua, its unfamiliarity, its syntax, etc. He even modified it to add C style comments and operators. His new sandbox game "s&box" is based on C#, which is the language closest to his heart I think.

The point I'm trying to make is just that Lua is familiar to me and not to you for seemingly no objective reason. Had Garry chosen a different language, I would likely have a different favorite language, and Lua would feel unfamiliar and strange to me.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists...

Thank god it wasn’t then.

https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm

I did once manage to compile Lua 5.4 on a Macintosh SE with 4MB of RAM, and THINK C 5.0 (circa 1991), which was a sick trick. Unfortunately, it took about 30 seconds for the VM to fully initialize, and it couldn't play well with the classic MacOS MMU-less handle-based memory management scheme.

For example Premake[1] uses Lua as it is - without custom syntax parser but with set of domain specific functions.

This is pure Lua:

   workspace "MyWorkspace"
      configurations { "Debug", "Release" }
   
   project "MyProject"
      kind "ConsoleApp"
      language "C++"
      files { "**.h", "**.cpp" }
   
   filter { "configurations:Debug" }
      defines { "DEBUG" }
      symbols "On"
   
   filter { "configurations:Release" }
      defines { "NDEBUG" }
      optimize "On"

[1] https://premake.github.io/docs/What-Is-Premake

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Good to see you alive and kicking. Happy holidays

This would have been a catastrophic loss. Lua is better than javascript in every single way except for ordinal indexing

it also helps that it has ridiculously high performance for a scripting language

emcc -O3

(and maybe even adding --closure 1 )

edit: actually the QuickJS playground looks already optimized - just the MicroQuickJS one could be improved.