lu9: Native Lua 5.4 Interpreter

lu9 is a native Plan 9 port of Lua 5.4 featuring a complete Plan 9 system library, a simplified standalone interpreter, and LPeg pattern matching.

Features

• Lua 5.4 Core — Complete Lua runtime
• Plan 9 System Lib — p9 module for system interaction
• LPeg Support — Pattern matching module
• Static Binary — No external C dependencies

Building and Running

; mk
; mk install
; lu9

Plan 9 System Interface

The p9 module provides a Plan 9 system interface to Lua programs, from basic system calls to higher-level convenience functions:

local p9 = require("p9")
-- Write to file descriptor
p9.write("hello\n", p9.fdopen(1, "w"))

-- Read file
local fd = p9.open("/path/to/file", "oread")
if fd then
    local data = p9.pread(fd, 1024, 0)
    print(data)
    p9.close(fd)
end

Links

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