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Ravi (a Lua 5.3 dialect) 1.0 Beta-1 Release with LLVM and Eclipse OMR JIT compilation support

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@dibyendumajumdar dibyendumajumdar released this 11 Nov 01:12
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Ravi (http://ravilang.org) is a dialect of Lua 5.3 with LLVM and Eclipse OMR based JIT compilers and limited optional static typing. I am pleased to announce that the 1.0 Beta-1 release of Ravi is now available. Additionally, work is ongoing to create a distribution of Ravi that includes a selection of high quality third-party libraries (https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro).

This release is aligned with Lua 5.3.5.

The main highlights of this release are:

The main advantages of the new Eclipse OMR JIT backend are:

  • It is much smaller in size compared to LLVM
  • It was designed to be a JIT rather than an AOT compiler
  • Like LLVM it is an optimizing JIT compiler
  • It is under active development and battle tested as part of the OpenJ9 project

For further details on how to build Ravi with Eclipse OMR support please visit:

For general information regarding Ravi please visit:

All feedback welcome!

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu