Add support for Lua scripts to the Loader

• Student: Pedro Souza (pedrosouza@)
• Mentor: Wojciech Koszek (wkoszek@)

This project aims to make the Loader script interpreter modular so that the user can choose which scripting language to use at compile time. After that, it will be implemented a Lua scripting module and incrementally add the functionalities present in the Forth scripts.

Based on the interface defined for scripting modules:

• The already present Forth interpreter will be updated to match the defined interface
• Implement the basics of the Lua interpreter
• Incrementally add functionalities present in the Forth interpreter to the Lua interpreter
• Handle .conf and .rc file parsing with the Lua interpreter

• Lua interpreter module
• Lua scripts providing advanced boot options
• Lua parser for .conf and .rc files

• 2 weeks - Decouple Forth interpreter and ensure that it's working properly.
• 2 weeks - Port Lua interpreter and ensure that it's working properly.
• 1 week - Implement the loader function bindings.
• 5 weeks - Incrementally add Lua script functionalities and ensure that they're working properly.
• 1 week - Implement the .conf and .rc parser.
• 1 week - Write the documentation.