Luerl: Lua in Erlang Luerl introduction emphasizing its trade-off as scripting skin on top of the B…
Channel: FOSDEM
Date: 2019-02-12

Luerl: Lua in Erlang Luerl introduction emphasizing its trade-off as scripting skin on top of the BEAM ecosystem.
by Jean Chassoul

At: FOSDEM 2019
https://video.fosdem.org/2019/K.4.201/luainerlang.webm


Luerl is an implementation of standard Lua 5.3 written in Erlang/OTP. Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language common in games, IoT devices, machine learning and scientific computing research. 

The Luerl VM is a mixture of interpreting Lua VM instructions and using Erlang directly to implement function calls. 

Through the use of Erlang functions, Luerl can be augmented to cope with a wide range of different domains, creating a customized language sharing a syntactical framework. 

Room: K.4.201
Scheduled start: 2019-02-02 12:50:00+01