Ravi (a Lua dialect) 1.0 Beta-6 Release with JIT compilation support

Ravi (http://ravilang.org) is a dialect of Lua with a JIT backend and limited optional static typing. I am pleased to announce that the 1.0 Beta-6 release of Ravi is now available.

The main highlights of this release are:

• Bug fixes
• Improvements to type checking contributed by XmiliaH
• MIR JIT backend updated to latest upstream version

Other highlights:

• Ravi is now being tested on X86-64 and ARM64 architectures
• There is an experimental new compiler for Ravi that is available as a preview only. More details of this new compiler can be found at:
  https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-compiler.

For general information regarding Ravi please visit:

• https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi

A distribution of Ravi with a small set of libraries is available at:

https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/Suravi

All feedback welcome!

Thanks and Regards
Dibyendu