lua.go

A TOY Lua 5.3 implementation written in Go (WORK IN PROGRESS).

Build & Test

(Go1.13+ required)

cd .
git clone https://github.com/zxh0/lua.go.git

cd lua.go
export GO111MODULE=on
go build github.com/zxh0/lua.go/cmd/lua

./lua test/hello_world.lua

Links

• Lua 5.3 Reference Manual
• Lua 5.3 Source Code
• Lua 5.3 Test suites
• Lua 5.3 Bytecode Reference
• A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions
• The Evolution of Lua
• The Implementation of Lua 5.0
• Revisiting Coroutines
• Syntax-Diagrams for Lua 5.0
• Lua-Source-Internal
• Linear Scan Register Allocation
• Programming in Lua
• https://www.0value.com/implementing-lua-coroutines-in-go
• Optimizing Lua VM Bytecode using Global Dataflow Analysis