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Terra seemed promising when I ran across it a month ago. Does anyone know if it's possible to use LuaJIT's ffi module while writing Terra code?

What I mean is, there is a large body of existing code that I'd like to run alongside Terra. But if the choice is Terra xor LuaJIT, this becomes difficult.

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You might be looking for http://terralang.org/api.html § Managing Terra Values from Lua. Quoting:

> We provide wrappers around LuaJIT’s FFI API that allow you to allocate and manipulate Terra objects directly from Lua.

You can use Lua, Terra or both at runtime. The Lua part is LuaJIT including the ffi. The Terra part is LLVM and can link directly to C (maybe C++?). Lua can be used as a metaprogramming system to produce a static Terra .o or exe. Or Lua can be used as a runtime that can JIT and invoke Terra functions on the fly.

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