05-12-2015, 10:04 AM
If performance and memory are that large of a concern then you could hack together MCServerJIT like I did. 
It compiles each plugin into native code. I'm not really sure how Lua is that hard though, it's an extremely flexible dynamically typed syntax. One could also use setmetatable() for "classes". I picked Lua up in about 2 days and ever sice, I've learned to prototype plugins in only a couple of hours. A C++ interface seems kind of overkill as no current Lua plugin has even come close to hitting the limits of the interpreter in terms of speed, much less LuaJIT.
It compiles each plugin into native code. I'm not really sure how Lua is that hard though, it's an extremely flexible dynamically typed syntax. One could also use setmetatable() for "classes". I picked Lua up in about 2 days and ever sice, I've learned to prototype plugins in only a couple of hours. A C++ interface seems kind of overkill as no current Lua plugin has even come close to hitting the limits of the interpreter in terms of speed, much less LuaJIT.