Re: Emlua: a way to run a Lua interpreter inside Emacs as a module

[Eduardo Ochs]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 00:27, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>   >   Emlua: a way to run a Lua interpreter inside Emacs as a module
>   >   https://github.com/edrx/emlua
>
> Is it already possible to run lua itself in a subprocess?

Yes, that's very easy, and that's what I did for many years.

> I have a feeling that linking all the world's language interpreters
> into Emacs itself is asking for (1) lots more work and (2) trouble.

I linked Lua because it is my favorite language and in most cases I
write Lua code much faster that I write Lisp... and I _did_ try to
write hooks to process the output of an inferior Lua process to write
code that would process some kinds of outputs as sexps, but failed.

Emlua is a personal project that is helping me to bypass some of my
limitations with writing hooks and filters in elisp. I hope that it
won't make people blame me for the next 1000 languages that will be
linked to Emacs using modules... =/

  Cheers,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://angg.twu.net/#eev