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Let me see if I understand well: can I use this such that "terra" code is equivalent to C code and Lua code is equivalent to an extremely powerful preprocessor?

Am I right to think that I can generate dynamic libraries (.so) that do not include any kind of interpreter with this?

If I can do this then this may be my dream static / system language...

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One of our design goals was to make sure terra could execute independently of Lua. So everything that you describe is possible. For instance our simple hello world program (https://github.com/zdevito/terra/blob/master/tests/hello.t) compiles a standalone executable with the "terralib.saveobj" function. You can also write out object (.o) files that are ABI compatible with C. For instance, gemm.t (https://github.com/zdevito/terra/blob/master/tests/gemm.t) our matrix-matrix multiply autotuner writes out a .o file my_dgemm.o which we then call from a test harness in a separate C program (https://github.com/zdevito/terra/blob/master/tests/reference...). Once you have the .o files, you can use Lua to call the system linker to generate a dynamic library.

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