January Special Lua Meetup

The creator of Lua, Roberto Ierusalimschy, is going to be visiting London this month, so we are having a special meetup in his honour!

We are going to have two short talks, plus a Q&A about Lua with Roberto.

We will be giving away a (signed!) copy of the newly released edition of Programming in Lua, hot off the press.

Adapting Lua to an old OS - a case study, by Gavin Wraith

The designers of the ARM architecture designed RISC OS to
go with it. The economic constraints of the time implied a number
of compromises and constraints. It was designed in Cambridge in a
culture of BCPL rather than C. The philosophies behind RISC OS and Lua
clash on a number of issues. This brief talk points out the problems
of marrying the two, and how the flexibility of Lua makes that possible.

Using LLVM to generate Lua bindings by Justin Cormack

LLVM is a new(ish) open source compiler suite developed by Apple and others. It provides libraries which can be used, among other things, to analyse C code and easily generate bindings for C and C++ code to Lua without too much tedious manual work.

Lua Q&A with Roberto Ierusalimschy, creator of Lua

Back in 1993 Roberto created Lua in Rio, and has remained its benevolent dictator. Come and ask any questions about its past, present and future.

Followed by beer and discussions. Open to everyone, novice or expert. We are very friendly!