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The official documentation isn't 100% clear on things (why am I getting LUA_TNIL for functions?), and the best I can find with some simple web search is kinda relevant stackoverflow (๐Ÿคฎ) posts, except they're mostly about calling host functions from Lua side, the rest are things that seem I've nailed so far.

EDIT: Solution was that everyone was using luaL_dofile, while I was forward thinking and used lua_load instead, which isn't a macro, and as such doesn't do an initial lua_pcall. Now I do it manually, and now I get different, but less cryptic and actually documented errors. Now I just have to wrestle with D metaprogramming features (very strong and capable, but is a rabbit hole itself).

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[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whats the host language you try to embed lua into?

[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

D.

It has C ABI compatibility, so it should work. But as others wrote, I might have messed up my Lua script.

[โ€“] aluminium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Upvote for D, underrated lang.