go-php VS go-lua

Compare go-php vs go-lua and see what are their differences.

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go-php go-lua
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921 2,929
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0.0 2.8
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Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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go-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.
  • 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.

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-php and go-lua you can also consider the following projects:

go-python - naive go bindings to the CPython2 C-API

gopher-lua - GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go

go-duktape - [abandoned] Duktape JavaScript engine bindings for Go

goja - ECMAScript/JavaScript engine in pure Go

otto - A JavaScript interpreter in Go (golang)

tengo - A fast script language for Go

gisp - Simple LISP in Go

golua - Go bindings for Lua C API - in progress

The uGO Language - Script Language for Go