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Moonshine questions

https://github.com/gamesys/moonshine/

What is your table representation?

• Weak tables?
• non-string keys?
• ES6 maps?
• issues with 'hasOwnProperty'?

Multiple VMs?

• Marshalling?

Globals?

• noconflict?

Benchmarks?

Multiple return values

Browser Compatability?

• IE?
• Fallback to flash?

Source Maps

• Use of normal chrome debugger

Code size

• Dead code elimination?

"Browser Library"

• Storage via localStorage?
• Events?

Lua Standard library

• Can probably write most function in lua itself...

  • coroutine.wrap

• date stuff looks needlessly complex?

• patterns: Just translate the original processing code to js; it's not complex.

• dofile is just loadfile()()

• select: just use slice??

• xpcall error in error handler?

• debug library: why not implemented?

• table.getn doesn't just use length operator?

Lua 5.2?

Error compatability: rethrowing over js lua barrier?