Any plan to support AOT compilation or iOS?

[warvstar]

Would be interesting so I could use Lua in a cross platform way without resorting to the interpreter.

[cinterloper]

@warvstar you could try http://terralang.org/

[dibyendumajumdar]

Hi, @warvstar

Both are interesting questions.
Is there a reason why Ravi would not run on iOS? I have not tried it, but I guess it should just work in interpreter mode.
As far as I know JIT is not permitted anyway.

AOT compilation is certainly interesting. However Lua programs can load code dynamically - for true AOT compilation, it would be necessary to disable all dynamic code gen. I think this is not easy to do, as we see even C# and Java do not have reliable AOT after years of trying...

[dibyendumajumdar]

I think that eventually we can have AOT using #198.