Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua

[John Bond <john.r.bond () gmail com>]

Hello All,

Just came across a white paper on terra[1]

"""
Like C, Terra is a simple, statically-typed, compiled language with manual
memory management. But unlike C, it is designed from the beginning to
interoperate with Lua. Terra functions are first-class Lua values created
using the terra keyword. When needed they are JIT-compiled to machine code.
"""

The paper is a bit beyond my level of understanding, but it seems like
an interesting project.  could NSE benefit from this?  perhaps it would
make a nice GSOC project, obviously for next year.

John

[1]http://terralang.org/pldi071-devito.pdf
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