Is this project dead?

[2dpdlja496or43iq]

Which is the serious continuation of it?

https://github.com/LuaAbility/luaj

https://github.com/hashsploit/luaj

https://github.com/fabrice-ducos/luaj

https://github.com/elroy93/luaj

https://github.com/alekso56/luaj

https://github.com/wagyourtail/luaj

https://github.com/asiekierka/luaj

https://github.com/farmboy0/luaj

@MINUTE1084 @hashsploit @fabrice-ducos @elroy93 @alekso56 @wagyourtail @asiekierka @farmboy0

[asiekierka]

I recommend using the Insights -> Network tab to figure out which fork is most active.

My fork was initially created specifically for the OpenComputers project, and I have no plans on further maintenance beyond that.

[fabrice-ducos]

You can also use Insights -> Forks.

My fork was an attempt to upgrade the luaj project from old JDKs (1.2 - 1.4) to JDK 8+, and also with newer versions of ant (1.10+).

It was performed as a subproject of another personal project of mine, and it seems to work with newer JDKs (even 17) for JSE. I managed to run it successfully on Windows 10, Linux Ubuntu 22.04 and MacOSX Monterey 12.6.3.

However I wouldn't recommend it for production if it's what you have got in mind (at least not before thorough testing first).

The issue is that I am much less familiar with ant than with maven or gradle.

If your project includes deployment on mobiles, my fork is not for your use case. I am not familiar with the JME development and did not manage to compile it in this case (JME doesn't support many new language constructs, including generics). Therefore the JME part is not compiled by default in my fork (though the code is still there, and a compilation can still be attempted, with no guarantee, with ant all or ant jar-jme).

Best wishes

[wagyourtail]

I merged a few of the pr's here and use mine for https://github.com/jsmacros/jsmacros-lua im not exactly actively maintaining it, but if people were to send pr's I would read them over at some poimt

[fabrice-ducos]

Dear @wagyourtail,
I have sent a pull request from my fork, if you want to consider it, with a caveat regarding the drop of JME support.
I would have preferred to keep supporting JME, but JME seems to be legacy and maintaining it implies to be stuck to JDK 1.4

Best regards

[farmboy0]

I did extensive clean up and rework of luaj in my fork, common formatting, convert to maven, tests as junit5 as well as some bug fixes but Im not actively maintaining it. So while anyone is free to use my work I do not plan to go through the work again to make it match another fork.

[wagyourtail]

@fabrice-ducos part of my fork was merging @farmboy0 's fork, which converts to maven. iirc this includes java 8 update...
(yeah maybe need to do something if we want jme to actually work properly there still)

as well as

• Assorted fixes #48
• Reduce allocations per LuaClosure call #76
• add file/line to LuaError
• a patch for xpcall error handler result gets coerced incorrectly #94 (iirc one of my users had this issue so I needed to fix it)
• shade core into jme/jre jars
• some better java object interop support
• a change to metatables on java objects so they're per object

[fabrice-ducos]

Dear @farmboy0, @wagyourtail.
Thank you for these updates. I agree that it's the way to go.
Best regards.

[MINUTE1084]

Hi.

My project was created for the Spigot plugin for Minecraft.

It's a fix for some issues with the Spigot API integration, so there probably won't be any significant modifications for other projects.

It's not currently in development, so I don't think there will be any further research.

I apologize for the late response and thank you for your interest in the project.

[anthonywww]

Hi.

I'd recommend using @wagyourtail's fork (combined branch) as it seems to be the most mature?

Other fork details:

I noticed @lenrik1589's fork added Java 17 use of record and properly named the classes in core to PascalCase. According to their commit message they also are moving things away from reflections to lambdas.

lenrik1589@e4f13dd

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Looks like @hashsploit's fork is no longer maintained, it appears the only changes was to remove JME support and add support for Java 1.8+ for use in Maven + JitPack.

https://github.com/hashsploit/clank/blob/feature/overhaul/build.gradle.kts#L64

I plan on using luaj in conjunction with LWJGL3 for scripting.

Thanks for keeping this project alive!

[lenrik1589]

I noticed @lenrik1589's fork added Java 17 use of record and properly named the classes in core to PascalCase. According to their commit message they also are moving things away from reflections to lambdas.

i am not sure i wish to continue working on the project, as i worked on it in conjunction with Kingdom-of-The-Moon/FiguraRewriteRewrite and (now inaccessible, likely private) Kingdom-of-The-Moon/luaj, which transitioned into FiguraMC/Figura and respectively FiguraMC/luaj but I have been removed from the team of people who work on it which made me lose all motivation to continue active work, i might keep working on it, but even slower than i did before…