Lua vs Wren

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)

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Wren

The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. (by wren-lang)

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Source Code

wren.io

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Lua		Wren
	Project
0	Mentions	41
1,353	Stars	6,493
-	Growth	1.0%
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 10 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C	Language	Wren
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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.

Wren

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wren. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.

loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
14 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 29 Apr 2023

Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.

14 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 29 Apr 2023

This is very nice! Well done! Can you open an issue on the wren lang repository and mention this? https://github.com/wren-lang/wren Wren is also written by Bob Nystrom and the implementations share a lot of things.
Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
5 projects | /r/gamedev | 6 Mar 2023

Only kind of unrelated ... Every time I see the Bevy logo I'm reminded of Wren language https://wren.io/
Most important language features not touched in the book "Crafting Interpreters"?
2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Dec 2022

Check out the source to Wren: https://wren.io. It’s from the author of Crafting Interpreters and builds directly on what’s discussed in the book (essentially a more complete Lox) and adds several additional types, including an array.
Why does Rust have parameters on impl?
13 projects | /r/rust | 19 Nov 2022
Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2022
What are some good C programs I can read through?
3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 7 Sep 2022

The best C code I have ever read is that of wren.
Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
4 projects | /r/programming | 28 Aug 2022

11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2022

Well, basically I copied the second link from https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/wiki/Language-Bindings just randomly; I didn't think to check the release date to be honest with you, my bad.
The other Rust projects seems more updated, like https://github.com/Jengamon/ruwren was last updated in May 9.

11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2022