ChakraCore VS Lua

Compare ChakraCore vs Lua and see what are their differences.

ChakraCore

ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore] (by Microsoft)

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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ChakraCore Lua
3 -
8,397 1,353
- -
7.4 0.0
about 3 years ago over 10 years ago
JavaScript C
MIT License MIT License
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ChakraCore

Posts with mentions or reviews of ChakraCore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-23.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository

ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++

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

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

nelson - The Nelson Programming 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:

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

luacxx - C++11 API for creating Lua bindings