--- title: "kyju.org" url: https://daily.dev/posts/kyju-org-cfht7vs6q source_url: https://kyju.org/blog/piccolo-a-stackless-lua-interpreter/ type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2024-05-02T19:48:35.493Z updated: 2024-11-16T02:21:30.931Z tags: ["lua", "rust"] reading_time: 43 upvotes: 4 comments: 0 language: 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 · 4 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: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- 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)