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		Blackthorn on May 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lua: The Little Language That Could I've honestly not found it easy to embed as-is, at least in C++. Getting functions into Lua is a challenge. Sol2 makes life soooo much easier for it.

otikik on May 29, 2023 | [–]

LuaJIT has FFI capabilities, it's not a one-liner but it's also not bad:

https://gist.github.com/matiasinsaurralde/0a4ecf8f3e0d8768b3...

Blackthorn on May 30, 2023 | | [–]

The problems I've had are passing data structures between...really gets rough.

shadowgovt on May 29, 2023 | [–]

Getting functions into Lua is my favorite use of macros in c++.

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