Go, meet Lua: Using Lua in Go and vice-versa! (Virtual)

We had a great meetup last month! We hope you can join us via Zoom. Grab a snack and a beverage, and let's recreate that in-person meetup feel. First 30 minutes will be open discussion with food and drink, then we'll start the presentation.

This month's meeting is virtual due to current recommendations from local, state, federal, and international sources to slow the spread of COVID-19. We will continue to meet virtually until we can safely meet in-person.

-- Presentation --

Lua (https://www.lua.org/) is a lightweight dynamic language that is commonly embedded in popular software (Wireshark, nmap, pandoc...) or games (Roblox, WoW) to expose customization API's to users. Let's explore different solutions to embed Lua in Go or to extend Lua with Go.

The same principles can be applied with languages other than Lua, for example, Python, Julia, NewLISP, OCaml, Nim, Node, Zig, or even Java.

Keywords: go, lua, luajit, c, cgo, ffi

Andre Burgaud is a Sr. Manager at SPS Commerce

Agenda

• 6pm - 6:30pm: Networking, food & drink, and announcements
• 6:30pm - 7:15pm: Go, meet Lua: Using Lua in Go and vice-versa - Andre Burgaud
• 7:15pm - 8:00pm - Open Discussion

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• Jesse Lang - 612-568-8380
• Jack Spirou - 630-715-4302

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