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Not true withproblem with using scripting languages such as lua is that you require the end user to have the lua interpreter installed and you are distributing your entire program in source form. It can also be pretty slow compared to compiled technologies but with relatively modern machines its fine for most purposes.
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Not true, you can compile Lua programs with LuaJIT in the command line. Not to mention you could always package Lua binaries with your program.problem with using scripting languages such as lua is that you require the end user to have the lua interpreter installed and you are distributing your entire program in source form. It can also be pretty slow compared to compiled technologies but with relatively modern machines its fine for most purposes.
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What about decompiling it?If you wanted to distribute it "compiled," per se, you could always use string.dump to make it nearly impossible to read…
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Can't. string.dump converts a function into it's binary representation, you can run it with loadstring but there's no way to convert it back into the raw code.What about decompiling it?If you wanted to distribute it "compiled," per se, you could always use string.dump to make it nearly impossible to read…
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LuaDec51, one of many decompilers of lua bytecode. Reverse engineering of lua bytecode is extensively documented, it won't be identical to original source but is often recognisable (more so than machine code decompile efforts usually)What about decompiling it?If you wanted to distribute it "compiled," per se, you could always use string.dump to make it nearly impossible to read…
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Maybe getting the original code is not possible, but one of the effects of compiling is making the code "unmodifiable" (you could also modify the bytecode, but that's complicated). Making the code readable to humans makes it modifiable. Even if you can't get the original code, a code that does the same thing is modifiable too.Can't. string.dump converts a function into it's binary representation, you can run it with loadstring but there's no way to convert it back into the raw code.
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Have fun trying to modify the raw bytecode. You can modify any compiled language, I just never said it was easy.Maybe getting the original code is not possible, but one of the effects of compiling is making the code "unmodifiable" (you could also modify the bytecode, but that's complicated). Making the code readable to humans makes it modifiable. Even if you can't get the original code, a code that does the same thing is modifiable too.Can't. string.dump converts a function into it's binary representation, you can run it with loadstring but there's no way to convert it back into the raw code.
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I think the connotation was that you could use LuaDec to get the human readable source and alter that. It won't be 100% accurate to the original code but it is still going to achieve the same thing and is still human editable.Have fun trying to modify the raw bytecode. You can modify any compiled language, I just never said it was easy.Maybe getting the original code is not possible, but one of the effects of compiling is making the code "unmodifiable" (you could also modify the bytecode, but that's complicated). Making the code readable to humans makes it modifiable. Even if you can't get the original code, a code that does the same thing is modifiable too.
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Yep, that's exactly what I wanted to say.I think the connotation was that you could use LuaDec to get the human readable source and alter that. It won't be 100% accurate to the original code but it is still going to achieve the same thing and is still human editable.Have fun trying to modify the raw bytecode. You can modify any compiled language, I just never said it was easy.Maybe getting the original code is not possible, but one of the effects of compiling is making the code "unmodifiable" (you could also modify the bytecode, but that's complicated). Making the code readable to humans makes it modifiable. Even if you can't get the original code, a code that does the same thing is modifiable too.
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you can easialy bundle Lua and libriaries such as GUIs: http://lua-users.org...terfaceToolkitsJust want to know what you think about using Lua to write programs for Windows because normally Lua is thought as a script language I think. Does it make sense to use Lua for the mentioned use.