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# fengari
🐺 φεγγάρι - The Lua VM written in JS ES6 for Node and the browser
IRC: #fengari on freenode
## So far
- [x] Lexing/Parsing
- [x] Parse bytecode
- [x] Opcodes
- [x] Basic types representation:
- [x] Tag Methods
- [ ] Standard library
- [x] Base lib
- [x] Coroutine
- [x] Debug
- [x] Math
- [x] String
- [x] Table
- [x] utf8
- [x] os (~~`os.setlocale()`~~)
- [x] Package
- [ ] io
- [x] `file:__tostring()`
- [x] `file:flush()`
- [x] `file:write()`
- [x] `io.close()`
- [x] `io.stderr`
- [x] `io.stdin`
- [x] `io.stdout`
- [x] `io.type()`
- [x] `io.write()`
- [x] `io.flush()`
- [ ] `io.input()`: partially implemented
- [ ] `io.lines()`
- [ ] `io.open()`
- [ ] `io.output()`: partially implemented
- [ ] `io.popen()`
- [ ] `io.read()`
- [ ] `io.tmpfile()`
- [ ] `file:lines()`
- [ ] `file:read()`
- [ ] `file:setvbuf()`
- [ ] `file:__gc()`
- [x] C API
- [x] Auxiliary library
- [ ] Run [Lua test suite](https://github.com/lua/tests)
- [x] `attrib.lua`
- [x] `bitwise.lua` (16/16)
- [x] `calls.lua` (32/32)
- [x] `closure.lua` (16/16)
- [x] `constructs.lua` (`_soft`) (10/10)
- [x] `events.lua` (26/26)
- [x] `goto.lua` (18/18)
- [x] `literals.lua` (30/30)
- [x] `locals.lua` (10/10)
- [x] `nextvar.lua` (44/44)
- [x] `strings.lua` (34/34)
- [x] `vararg.lua` (8/8)
- [ ] `coroutine.lua` (32/40)
- [ ] `errors.lua` (46/64)
- [ ] `math.lua` (44/68)
- [ ] `pm.lua` (27/38)
- [ ] `sort.lua` (21/24)
- [ ] `tpack.lua` (20/32)
- [ ] `utf8.lua` (14/20)
- [ ] `api.lua`
- [ ] `big.lua`
- [ ] `code.lua`
- [ ] `db.lua`
- [ ] `verybig.lua`
- [ ] DOM API binding: [https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-interop](https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-interop)
## Extensions
### `dv = lua_todataview(L, idx)`
Equivalent to `lua_tolstring` but returns a [`DataView`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/DataView) instead of a string.
### `str = lua_toljsstring(L, idx)`
Equivalent to `lua_tolstring` but returns the string as a JavaScript string (as if `to_jsstring()` was called on the result).
### `lua_tojsstring(L, idx)`
Alias for `lua_toljsstring`.
### `lua_pushjsfunction(L, func)`
Alias for `lua_pushcfunction`.
### `lua_pushjsclosure(L, func, n)`
Alias for `lua_pushcclosure`.
### `lua_atnativeerror(L, func)`
Sets a function to be called if a native JavaScript error is thrown across a lua pcall.
The function will be run as if it were a message handler (see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2.3).
The current message handler will be run after the native error handler returns.
### `b = lua_isproxy(p, L)`
Returns a boolean `b` indicating whether `p` is a proxy (See `lua_toproxy`).
If `L` is non-null, only returns `true` if `p` belongs to the same global state.
### `p = lua_toproxy(L, idx)`
Returns a JavaScript object `p` that holds a reference to the lua value at the stack index `idx`.
This object can be called with a lua_State to push the value onto that state's stack.
This example would be an inefficient way to write `lua_pushvalue(L, 1)`:
```js
var p = lua_toproxy(L, 1);
p(L);
````
## References
- [Source code for Lua 5.3](lua.org/source/5.3/)
- [Lua 5.2 Bytecode and Virtual Machine](http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/lua-5.2-bytecode-vm-dirk-laurie/lua52vm.html)
- [Lua 5.3 Bytecode Reference](http://the-ravi-programming-language.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lua_bytecode_reference.html)
- [A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions](http://luaforge.net/docman/83/98/ANoFrillsIntroToLua51VMInstructions.pdf)