Luma documentation
Internals & Architecture

Internals & Architecture

How Luma works under the hood. The compiler reads .luma files, parses them into an AST, and generates Go code that gets compiled into a native binary. These pages document each stage of that pipeline.

Compilation

Compilation Pipeline
End-to-end flow from .luma source to native binary
 Compiler (Luma → Go)
How the code generator translates AST nodes to Go

Parsing

AST Design
The abstract syntax tree that represents every Luma program
 Parser & Lexer
Tokenization and parsing of Luma source code

Runtime

Function Dispatching
How built-in functions and methods are resolved at compile time
 Core Runtime (.lcore)
The Go snippets that power Luma’s standard library
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