Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell

I find it quite interesting how particular languages seem to disproportionally attract specific kinds of projects.

From a first glance, this is the second somewhat opinionated, compact, minimal-dependency interpreter/shell/library bundle despite the Lua(JIT) ecosystem being tiny. The other example I have in mind for this would've been luapower, which sadly became somewhat inactive.

I really like the simplicity of the language and the speed and compactness of its implementation. The JIT is also the real deal, with millisecond cold start execution delays unlike Julia, which masquerades as a JIT/interpreted language while featuring dog slow (by comparison) LLVM ("pre-")compilation under the hood (core language, type system, package management and interoperability concepts are admittedly nice in Julia though).

Speaking about "batteries included" LuaJIT, people might be interested in https://franko.github.io/gsl-shell

This looks very interesting. It says it has networking, cryptography, etc. Is there any documentation of the APIs? I can't try this out if I don't know what they are.

Does this run on bare metal? Are there any plans to include graphics primitives?

As another comment suggested, Lua seems to lend itself to certain kinds of projects. This looks like it could mesh well with my forever project to rewrite userland in Love2d!