Yes, you can write some functionality in C/C++, and export it to the Lua VM, and access those features from within the Lua language environment. This is really awesome!
Look underneath the covers (i.e. build MOAI from sources) and you'll see all of the techniques I'm promoting, albeit in an open, easy to understand - and DAMNED POWERFUL - form.
MOAI is a cross-platform game development toolkit, but since its been designed by talented engineers with great ideas, it could as easily be used to build a next-generation Operating System, akin to what is happening with Android and the Dalvik VM.
The Linux Kernel + MOAI(Lua) would be a formidable challenger to the Android eco-system, imho, given a little more love .. I've already gotten my rPi booting directly to the MOAI runtime, anyway, and its a much more fun way of writing apps for the thing than anything else right now, at least in my opinion. With the advantage that those same apps, with very, very little effort, will run on Windows, Linux, OSX .. iOS .. Android .. Chrome Native Client .. and so on ..
MOAI is an example of the ways in which the LuaVM can actually fulfill the promises made back in the Java honeymoon days ..
A really good example for you is MOAI: http://getmoai.com/
Look underneath the covers (i.e. build MOAI from sources) and you'll see all of the techniques I'm promoting, albeit in an open, easy to understand - and DAMNED POWERFUL - form.
MOAI is a cross-platform game development toolkit, but since its been designed by talented engineers with great ideas, it could as easily be used to build a next-generation Operating System, akin to what is happening with Android and the Dalvik VM.
The Linux Kernel + MOAI(Lua) would be a formidable challenger to the Android eco-system, imho, given a little more love .. I've already gotten my rPi booting directly to the MOAI runtime, anyway, and its a much more fun way of writing apps for the thing than anything else right now, at least in my opinion. With the advantage that those same apps, with very, very little effort, will run on Windows, Linux, OSX .. iOS .. Android .. Chrome Native Client .. and so on ..
MOAI is an example of the ways in which the LuaVM can actually fulfill the promises made back in the Java honeymoon days ..