Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:38eLua is an effort to expand the presence of the Lua programming language in the embedded world, especially on MCU platforms. It is meant to be a complete MCU development environment. It currently runs on a number of ARM variants, as well as Cortex and AVR32 (and i386 as a proof of concept). Version 0.7 was just released, this is the changelog:
* Compiling eLua under Windows is now officially supported
* Added LuaRPC (remote procedure calls in the embedded world)
* Added generic and portable SD/MMC Card FAT File System support
* New shell cat/type command, lists text file contents
* New ROMFS build modes: compress and compile
* Added support for Olimex STR-E912 board
* Added the STR9 platform specific pio module
* Added Robert Jakabosky's EGC (Emergency Garbage Collector) patch to eLua
* Added support for the PUC-Rio eLua board, NXP LPC2468 MCU
* Added basic CAN module
* New full CSS based site/doc menu
* More portuguese content translations
* ADC module doc enhancements
* More tutorials and general doc enhancements
You can find all the project documentation at
http://www.eluaproject.net
