LadyLua vs golua

LadyLua

Single executable(static), batteries included, Lua 5.1 interpreter. (by tongson)

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golua

A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go (by Azure)

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LadyLua		golua
	Project
4	Mentions	2
83	Stars	1,844
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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LadyLua

Posts with mentions or reviews of LadyLua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-23.

I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2021

Exactly my thought when I started working on LadyLua https://github.com/tongson/LadyLua
Show HN: Write Dockerfiles in Lua
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2021
Hacker News top posts: Apr 8, 2021
6 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 8 Apr 2021

Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter\ (0 comments)
Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2021

golua

Posts with mentions or reviews of golua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-20.

Are there any Golang Lua VMs that support snapshotting/serializationi?
4 projects | /r/golang | 20 Dec 2022
Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2021

GopherLua [0] is a Lua implementation written in Go, not just a wrapper around the C implementation.
The main alternative seems to be Shopify’s go-lua [1], given that Microsoft’s golua [2] is no longer being developed. The main difference between these three implementations seems to be the supported Lua version - 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 respectively.
[0] https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua
[1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua
[2] https://github.com/Azure/golua

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LadyLua and golua you can also consider the following projects:

kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library

go-lua - A Lua VM in Go

gopher-json - a simple JSON encoder/decoder for gopher-lua

goja - ECMAScript/JavaScript engine in pure Go

libpeer - WebRTC Library for IoT/Embedded Device using C

gopher-lua - GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go

cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool

go-duktape - [abandoned] Duktape JavaScript engine bindings for Go

Ory Keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.

omniajit - Standalone LuaJIT programs.

ecal - A simple embeddable scripting language which supports concurrent event processing.