guile-sys VS rlua

Compare guile-sys vs rlua and see what are their differences.

guile-sys

Low-level rust bindings to guile (by ysimonson)

rlua

High level Lua bindings to Rust (by mlua-rs)
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guile-sys rlua
1 13
6 1,676
- 1.1%
0.0 8.2
over 4 years ago 3 months ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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guile-sys

Posts with mentions or reviews of guile-sys. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-22.
  • Ketos: Lisp dialect scripting and extension language for Rust programs
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2021
    I wrote up some rust low-level bindings for guile [1]. The problem is that Guile liberally uses setjmp/longjmp, which breaks rust destructors. It might be possible to fix this by wrapping every call the way rlua does [2], but I'm not familiar enough with Guile to know.

    1: https://github.com/ysimonson/guile-sys

    2: https://github.com/amethyst/rlua/issues/21

rlua

Posts with mentions or reviews of rlua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing guile-sys and rlua you can also consider the following projects:

Ketos - Lisp dialect scripting and extension language for Rust programs

mlua

hlua - Rust library to interface with Lua

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library

bincode - A binary encoder / decoder implementation in Rust.

msgpack-rust - MessagePack implementation for Rust / msgpack.org[Rust]

Fennel - Lua Lisp Language

rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

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