Re: [ANN] CLX - Ahead-of-Time Lua 5.5 Compiler

Metatables and metamethods are supported and are an important part of 
Lua compatibility.

Optimizations are designed not to change observable Lua behavior.

If you have a specific metamethod edge case in mind, I'd be interested 
in testing it against CLX :)

Le 22/06/2026 21:13, 'eugeny gladkih' via lua-l a écrit :

>> On 22 Jun 2026, at 10:58, Samir Tine <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> That's a fair question.
>> The goal is not to intentionally exclude Lua features. In fact, CLX 
>> already supports essentially all Lua 5.5 syntax (including global, 
>> <const> and <close>) and most of the standard library.
>> The main unsupported areas today are features that fundamentally 
>> depend on runtime code generation or deep interpreter introspection, 
>> such as load(), loadfile(), dofile(), string.dump(), and most of the 
>> debug module.
> 
> what about meta tables and meta-methods? suddenly, a+b is not the same 
> as b+a is :)
> 
> --
> Yours sincerely, Eugeny.

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