Lua VS luacxx

Compare Lua vs luacxx and see what are their differences.

Lua

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. (by LuaDist)

luacxx

C++11 API for creating Lua bindings (by dafrito)
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Lua luacxx
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1,353 155
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0.0 0.0
over 10 years ago about 6 years ago
C C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Lua yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

luacxx

Posts with mentions or reviews of luacxx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning luacxx yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Lua and luacxx you can also consider the following projects:

ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++

Wren - The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint

v8pp - Bind C++ functions and classes into V8 JavaScript engine

V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository

shpp - Call c++ functions from a shell with any arguments of any types parsed automatically

Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler

tbing - Templates-based bindings and interfaces generator for C++