gdextension VS godot-lua-pluginscript

Compare gdextension vs godot-lua-pluginscript and see what are their differences.

gdextension

Rust bindings for Godot 4 [Moved to: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext] (by godot-rust)

godot-lua-pluginscript

Godot PluginScript for the Lua language, currently based on LuaJIT's FFI (by gilzoide)
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gdextension godot-lua-pluginscript
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10.0 5.2
about 1 year ago about 1 year ago
Rust Lua
Mozilla Public License 2.0 MIT License
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gdextension

Posts with mentions or reviews of gdextension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-16.
  • Rust – Are We Game Yet?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023
    > Same for Godot.

    While likely true that it's "Unlikely to ever be as supported" as the 4 officially supported languages[0] ("GDScript, C#, and, via its GDExtension technology, C and C++."), Godot's GDExtension technology is specifically intended for use in adding support for other languages.

    The most relevant tracking issue for Rust is presumably:

    * <https://github.com/godot-rust/gdnative/issues/824>

    Which links to:

    * <https://github.com/godot-rust/gdextension>

    [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.0/getting_started/step_by_...

  • what's the state of using rust in Godot 4?
    2 projects | /r/godot | 9 Mar 2023
    The Rust binding for GDExtension is still at an early stage as advertised by the ReadMe, but we're making steady progress. Thanks to active contributors, the last month has been very productive, with support for arrays, dictionaries, vectors, transforms, single/double precision, as well as several bugfixes and higher test coverage.
  • Godot 4.0 is out
    3 projects | /r/linux | 1 Mar 2023
    Worth noting that with Godot being 'built in' matters less - C# is a first class language in Godot 4 but it also isn't built in, because the engine can be extended with fully integrated language plugins. This is a new thing in Godot 4, Rust is being added in the same way but isn't ready yet.
  • Raku + Godot? GDExtension, could this be possible?
    3 projects | /r/rakulang | 17 Jan 2023
    An example would be Lua and Rust bindings.

godot-lua-pluginscript

Posts with mentions or reviews of godot-lua-pluginscript. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gdextension and godot-lua-pluginscript you can also consider the following projects:

unreal-rust - Rust integration for Unreal Engine 5

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

gdnative - Rust bindings for Godot 3

luarocks - LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language.

luascript - Lua language support for Godot Engine

godot-python - Python support for Godot 🐍🐍🐍

godot-fmod-integration - FMOD Studio middleware integration and scripting API bindings for the Godot game engine.

luakit - Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.

JoltPhysics - A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library, written in C++, suitable for games and VR applications.

godot-ruby - ruby language binding for godot game engine

Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

apisix - The Cloud-Native API Gateway