--- title: kyju.org | daily.dev description: Piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language that is written in Rust with a focus on safe sandboxing and resiliency. The author discusses the history of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: kyju.org | daily.dev og:description: Piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language that is written in Rust with a focus on safe sandboxing and resiliency. The author discusses the history of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cFht7vS6Q.png og:image:alt: kyju.org og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # kyju.org **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 43 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language that is written in Rust with a focus on safe sandboxing and resiliency. The author discusses the history of Piccolo and its unique 'stackless' design, which allows for easier cancellation and pre-emptive concurrency. They also explore the challenges of implementing Rust coroutines into GC-Arena and Piccolo, and the core idea of systems programming languages. The goal for Piccolo is to create a version of Lua that can fit into any program and has minimal assumptions. The author also expresses a preference for Lua over other systems programming languages in certain cases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#lua](https://daily.dev/tags/lua), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"kyju.org","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q"},"datePublished":"2024-05-02T19:48:35.493Z","dateModified":"2024-11-16T02:21:30.931Z","description":"Piccolo is an interpreter for the Lua language that is written in Rust with a focus on safe sandboxing and resiliency. The author discusses the history of...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a72cd49a9c8e5f6d0357da70fbc42278?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/a72cd49a9c8e5f6d0357da70fbc42278?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"lua,rust","timeRequired":"PT43M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"kyju.org"}]} ```