Even LuaJIT is too slow compared to the real dotnet!

[2dpdlja496or43iq]

I suggest adding the feature to translate Lua code to C/C++ to utilize a C/C++ compiler to get the native binary. This will speed thing up.

[Drake53]

What exactly is your use case? You talk about using C/C++ so it seems to me that you're not forced to use lua. In that case wouldn't it be easier to find a transpiler that transpiles C# directly to C/C++ instead of first transpiling C# to lua then transpiling that to C/C++?

[2dpdlja496or43iq]

transpiles C# directly to C/C++

Such a thing available?

[yanghuan]

unity IL2CPP can do this

[2dpdlja496or43iq]

What exactly is your use case? You talk about using C/C++ so it seems to me that you're not forced to use lua.

Run .NET program where a .NET runtime is not available.

[Cheatoid]

@2dpdlja496or43iq Try something like Nelua.

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@yanghuan .NET NativeAOT is a thing as well (formerly known as CoreRT):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/native-aot/