Re: Compiling to lua bytecode

[Marcus Mason <m4gicks@...>]

I might look at doing that perhaps it will end up being easier in the end. Out of curiosity, why was the decision RE the bytecode not being a recommended target made?

On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, 10:50 Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> are there any unofficial resources on the [bytecode] format for a recent version of lua? (>= 5.3)

The official resource is https://www.lua.org/source/5.3/lopcodes.h.html.

I suggest you compile your language to Lua, not to Lua bytecode.