Call Go from Lua

[yuin]

Call Go from Lua

[funny-falcon]

main gopherlua's feature is performance imho, sand any reflection magic will hurt it.

If don't concern about performance, then you can use custom wrapper with reflection magic.

[jsimnz]

I'll run some benchmarks and see what the hit is like.

I am currently working on something similar. It currently has support for most types, including channels, structs, and maps. You can take a look at it here:

https://godoc.org/github.com/layeh/gopher-luar (github)

[yuin]

I don't think the performance is main feature of the GopherLua.
(There are many way to make more fast implementations)

My design principles are:

• Integration of Lua's philosophy and Go's philosophy
  • keep it simple
  • perfer scaling back functions than adding new functions
  • no magic
• User friendly Go APIs

That means, in short, it is important that balancing the simplicity with easy-to-use APIs.

The most appropiate approach for the situation is making it as a library.

I think bontibon's gopher-luar is the best for this situation.

[yuin]

close this issue for now