Ravi (a Lua 5.3 dialect) Alpha Release 0.23 with LLVM JIT compilation support

Ravi (http://ravilang.org) is a dialect of Lua 5.3 with LLVM based JIT compiler and limited optional static typing. I am pleased to announce that the alpha 0.23 release of Ravi is now available. Additionally, work is ongoing on creating a distribution of Ravi that includes high quality third-party libraries (https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro).

This release is aligned with Lua 5.3.4.

The principal changes in this release are:

• LLVM 6.0 support
• Bug fixes from ongoing work on Ravi Distribution
• The LuaJIT bit library is included
• Ravi can be used to run dynasm assembler.

Known Issues

• The Windows 64-bit build of LLVM continues may crash when running Lua tests ( issue #30 )

Others

Please refer to the Ravi Documentation for a list of known differences between JIT mode and interpreted mode, and compatibility with Lua 5.3.