LuaJIT VS terra

Compare LuaJIT vs terra and see what are their differences.

LuaJIT

Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository (by LuaJIT)

terra

Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language. (by terralang)
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LuaJIT terra
39 38
4,350 2,652
2.2% 0.7%
9.0 5.7
18 days ago 29 days ago
C C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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LuaJIT

Posts with mentions or reviews of LuaJIT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.

terra

Posts with mentions or reviews of terra. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LuaJIT and terra you can also consider the following projects:

lua-languages - Languages that compile to Lua

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

moonjit - Just-In-Time Compiler for the Lua Programming language. Fork of LuaJIT to continue development. This project does not have an active maintainer, see https://twitter.com/siddhesh_p/status/1308594269502885889?s=20 for more detail.

luajit2 - OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2

nelua-lang - Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.

ravi - Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers

lua-luajit-compound-operators - Compound Operators patch for lua/luajit

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

moonscript - :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

pallene - Pallene Compiler

mir - A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR