https://github.com/cc-tweaked/cobalt

A re-entrant fork of LuaJ
https://github.com/cc-tweaked/cobalt

lua luaj runtime

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A re-entrant fork of LuaJ

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cc-tweaked/cobalt
• Owner: cc-tweaked
• License: other
• Created: 2015-03-08T19:35:39.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-08T11:13:31.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-17T02:55:36.421Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: lua, luaj, runtime
• Language: Java
• Homepage:
• Size: 8.3 MB
• Stars: 68
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Cobalt

Cobalt is an Lua implementation for Java, designed for use in the Minecraft mod

[CC: Tweaked]. Is is based on [LuaJ 2.0][LuaJ], though has diverged

significantly over the years.

## Features

Cobalt implements a (mostly) compliant Lua 5.1 implementation, with several

interesting additional features:

 - Backports much of the Lua 5.2-5.4 standard library.

 - Allows yielding _anywhere_ within a Lua program, including debug hooks and

   any inside any native function.

 - Support for interrupting and resuming the VM at arbitrary points.

 - Efficient concatenation of strings using ropes.

## Using

Don't.

No seriously, don't. Cobalt is developed in-sync with CC: Tweaked, and so grows

and changes according to the mod's needs. There is no guarantee of API stability

between versions. It makes many design decisions which make sense for CC, but

not for anything which needs a normal Lua implementation.

Instead I recommend using one of the alternative Lua implementations, like

LuaJ, JNLua or Rembulan.

[CC: Tweaked]: https://github.com/cc-tweaked/CC-Tweaked "cc-tweaked/CC-Tweaked: Just another ComputerCraft fork"

[LuaJ]: https://github.com/luaj/luaj "luaj/luaj: Lightweight, fast, Java-centric Lua interpreter written for JME and JSE."