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Port of the Lua programming language for ActionScript using Alchemy (No longer supported)
https://github.com/lua-alchemy/lua-alchemy

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Port of the Lua programming language for ActionScript using Alchemy (No longer supported)

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README 

        
Lua Alchemy is no longer supported

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Dear Lua Alchemy users,



Thank you for your support in all these years! As you know, Lua Alchemy is based on the old Adobe Alchemy technology, which is no longer supported by Adobe. 



If you need Lua support in the browser, take a look at [lua.vm.js](https://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/lua.vm.js.html), [lua5.1.js](https://github.com/logiceditor-com/lua5.1.js/), [Moonshine](http://moonshinejs.org/) and other JS-based implementations. They are the future.



If you really need to use Lua in Adobe Flash, you may want to find someone to sponsor Lua Alchemy port to [FlashCC](http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/flascc/README.html), which is the current supported version of Adobe Alchemy. [My company](http://logiceditor.com) engineers are available to do the actual work, but, alas, I do not have resources to do this as an unpaid personal hobby project myself. If you're interested, please contact us at [email protected].



If you need commercial support for the current Lua Alchemy, write at the same address.



You can get free support from the community at the [Lua Alchemy mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lua-alchemy-dev) and on [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=lua-alchemy).



-- Alexander Gladysh, the Lua Alchemy maintainer.



Background

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Lua is a great dynamic programming language, Adobe Flash is a great

universal platform for applications and Adobe Alchemy is the tool to

bind them together.



The main webpage can be found here:

http://code.google.com/p/lua-alchemy/



Lua

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Lua is a powerful, fast, light-weight, embeddable scripting language.



Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description

constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua

is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based

virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental

garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and

rapid prototyping.



-- http://lua.org/about.html



Adobe Flash

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Adobe Flash (previously called "Macromedia Flash"') is a set of

multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently developed and

distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has

become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web

pages; Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and

various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more

recently, to develop rich Internet applications.



-- http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Flash



Adobe Alchemy

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With Alchemy, Web application developers can now reuse hundreds of

millions of lines of existing open source C and C++ client or

server-side code on the Flash Platform. Alchemy brings the power of high

performance C and C++ libraries to Web applications with minimal

degradation on AVM2. The C/C++ code is compiled to ActionScript 3.0 as a

SWF or SWC that runs on Adobe Flash Player 10 or Adobe AIR 1.5.



-- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/



Motivation

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We need Lua Alchemy to...



  * ...To use *run-time dynamic* programming language (Lua) within

    the Flash framework.

  * ...To *reuse* existing Lua code for the Flash-based utilities

  * ...To get a *great cross-platform back-end* (Flash) for (simpler)

    Lua-based games

  * ...To have fun with *awesome* new technology :-)



File Manifest

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    AUTHORS - Contact information for the authors of lua-alchemy

    BUGS - List of known issues

    COPYRIGHT - Copyright for the lua-alchemy project

    HISTORY - Project history log

    README - This file describing the project

    SPONSORS - The list if Lua Alchemy sponsors

    alchemy/ - Builds lua-alchemy.swc

    build/ - Build utility tools

    demo/ - Flash and Flex demos

    etc/ - Odds and ends of various usefulness

    test/ - Lua and ActionScript tests



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