LuaJIT support

[kassane]

From the title above. Will it be compatible with luaJit?
I remember that zoltan is compatible. ranciere/zoltan#1

[natecraddock]

Yes this is planned, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I will mention that luajit has a much more complex build system than regular lua

[natecraddock]

The build.zig for ffmpeg involves using the nasm assembler at compile time. This is similar to what is necessary for building luajit. See this for reference https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg/blob/73ac2d6ce909854436a23a26a9f712861eec2b4e/build.zig#L873

[theoparis]

How about Luau support? It has additional features such as types. The cmake build script has a way to build it with extern "C".

[natecraddock]

@theoparis I'm also open to Luau though for me that is lower priority than luajit. Feel free to open a separate issue to track it

[nurpax]

I came here to ask about Luau. At least for my needs, Luau seems like a more useful addition than LuaJIT. Luau fixes many warts in Lua that have been pretty offputting for me.

I might try out building it and see if I can somehow use it with these bindings.

[natecraddock]

@nurpax As it seems there is some strong interest in Luau, I've made a separate issue for it here: #30

Though I haven't attempted either yet, it seems Luau might be easier than LuaJIT so I'll give it a try soon

[VisenDev]

@natecraddock I think some nice zig integration for luajit ffi would be amazing if we could get that to work

It would make it so nice to use lua with zig