go-lua vs go-php

go-lua

A Lua VM in Go (by Shopify)

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PHP bindings for the Go programming language (Golang) (by deuill)

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go-lua		go-php
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4	Mentions	1
2,922	Stars	921
1.4%	Growth	-
2.8	Activity	0.0
24 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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go-lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-24.

Jacobin: Minimal JVM written in Go and capable of running Java 17 classes
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023

https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua
Unless you specifically need a JVM either of these will be a much more practical and mature choice for embedded scripting.
Alternatively if you prefer JS then Otto is a good choice:
Are there any Golang Lua VMs that support snapshotting/serializationi?
4 projects | /r/golang | 20 Dec 2022

Do you know about go-lua? There's a good discussion of various go lua implementations here, including this choice quote:
Change go code behaviour at runtime
10 projects | /r/golang | 10 Oct 2022

There are lua and Go-script options. My impression is that a few are well accepted but perhaps just a little less widely used than the first two. I cannot speak from personal experience on them. Shopify has a Lua 5.2 port: https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua and I know https://github.com/bitfield/script is one of the Go-like scripting languages, but I think it's more for a shell script replacement than embedding.
Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2021

GopherLua [0] is a Lua implementation written in Go, not just a wrapper around the C implementation.
The main alternative seems to be Shopify’s go-lua [1], given that Microsoft’s golua [2] is no longer being developed. The main difference between these three implementations seems to be the supported Lua version - 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 respectively.
[0] https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua
[1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua
[2] https://github.com/Azure/golua

go-php

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Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2022

This is amazing, and way more advanced than what was there. Going to definitely use it on the next project.
Previously, there was https://github.com/deuill/go-php which was PHP5 and PHP7, but you needed to build PHP with ZTS. I forked it to focus on PHP5 (https://github.com/borancar/go-php). My primary goal was to port some legacy PHP over iteratively via the Strangler pattern.