Comment by versteegen

Well... if you look at an opcode example, eg [1], it's actually almost entirely ordinary C++ which would only look slightly different if this were a non-JIT-compiling interpreter without Deegen. I say that being moderately familiar with the PUC Lua, LuaJIT, Squirrel and other VM codebases. If this is enough to produce a good JIT, that's incredible. It's quite verbose C++ but that's code style, not due to Deegen. The Deegen bit is a few lines at the bottom, which is DSL-like. I think C++ is a good choice, because it's a good choice for writing a VM.

[1] https://github.com/luajit-remake/luajit-remake/blob/master/a...