Ravi (http://ravilang.org) is a dialect of Lua 5.3 with LLVM and Eclipse OMR based JIT compilers and limited optional static typing. I am pleased to announce that the alpha 0.24 release of Ravi is now available. Additionally, work is ongoing on creating a distribution of Ravi that includes high quality third-party libraries (https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro). This release is aligned with Lua 5.3.4. The main highlight of this release is that a new JIT backend based on [a customized version of Eclipse OMR](https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/nj) has been added. Note that this is in development and this is an early preview release. The main advantages of the new Eclipse OMR JIT backend are: * It is much smaller in size compared to LLVM * It was designed to be a JIT rather than an AOT compiler * Like LLVM it is an optimizing JIT compiler * It is under active development and battle tested as part of the OpenJ9 project For further details on how to build Ravi with Eclipse OMR support please visit: * https://the-ravi-programming-language.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ravi-omr-instructions.html For general information regarding Ravi please visit: * https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi * https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-distro All feedback welcome! Thanks and Regards Dibyendu