Indeed, there’s a lua interpreter package. Unfortunately it is not that useful
at the moment, as it’s missing libraries to interface from lua to HAL (for 
example).

You can get ‘Hello World!’ out, but not much else :(

> On May 25, 2016, at 11:21 AM, David Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> For a Java/JavaScript developer it might be a bit of a steep climb but that's 
> not really a reason not to do it. One of the tutorials is getting a lua 
> script interpreter running on mynewt though so that might be a place to 
> start. 
> 
> Best regards,
> dg
> --
> I'll take credit For the funny typos, the rest I blame on the iPhone spell 
> wrecker. 
> 
>> On May 25, 2016, at 2:18 PM, David Moshal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> thanks, is your platform suitable for newbies?
>> ie: java/javascript developers looking to get into embedded programming?
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:12 AM, aditi hilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi David,
>>> 
>>> You can search our mailing archives if you have something specific in
>>> mind: https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] <
>>> https://lists.apache.org/[email protected]>
>>> You can also post a question as a new thread to dev@ mailing list.
>>> Currently we do not have a users@ mailing list and we will wait for
>>> responses to this summary for 72 hours before submitting the new list
>>> request (provided there is consensus or no opposition).
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> aditi
>>> 
>>>> On May 25, 2016, at 10:36 AM, David Moshal <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi, as a newcomer, any help getting started would be appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:49 AM, aditi hilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for pitching in your thoughts regarding a users@ mailing list
>>>>> for Apache Mynewt. The majority indicated it was a good idea as long as
>>> the
>>>>> developers subscribed to it too. Here are the takeaways:
>>>>> 
>>>>> * It is less intimidating for a newcomer to the project to ask for help
>>>>> installing/using Mynewt, device builds etc. on a users@ mailing list.
>>> We
>>>>> want to attract a lot of new users and expand the community; so having a
>>>>> separate users@ mailing list that doesn’t scare new users away would
>>> help.
>>>>> * Developers learn a lot from issues being faced by the users and can
>>>>> improve product based on the discussions there; so they are strongly
>>>>> encouraged (and expected) to subscribe to both users@ and dev@ mailing
>>>>> lists.
>>>>> * A more intuitive interface for the mail archives with an efficient
>>>>> search functionality would be immensely helpful to all.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will request infrastructure to set up a users@ mailing list and
>>> update
>>>>> the documentation. We will use the new lists interface for Apache (Pony
>>>>> Mail) to make search easier and see whether we need to migrate to other
>>>>> options such as mark mail and nabble).
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> aditi
>>> 
>>> 

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