Lunar is a compiler intended to allow Lua scripts to be executed in Ruby.
It converts Lua scripts into mruby code and executes them on the mruby VM.
Install the lunar-lang crate published on crates.io. Please note that the crate named lunar is unrelated.
$ cargo install lunar-lang$ lunar -h
Lunar: A Lua-to-mruby compiler
Usage: lunar [COMMAND]
Commands:
compile Compile a Lua source file to an mruby binary
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version$ bat example/hello.lua
bat examples/hello.lua
───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: examples/hello.lua
───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ for i = 1, 5 do
2 │ print "hello, world\n"
3 │ end
───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
$ lunar compile example/hello.lua
$ mruby example/hello.mrb
hello, world
hello, world
hello, world
hello, world
hello, worldOnly very basic Lua features are supported. There is no guarantee that all Lua syntax and features will be supported in the future.
For now, it's just a toy program :)
Please see LICENSE.