language-lua
Lua parser and pretty-printer (by glguy)
nelua-lang
Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code. (by edubart)
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| language-lua | nelua-lang | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 31 | |
| 11 | 1,842 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.5 | 7.8 | |
| 11 months ago | 10 days ago | |
| Lua | Lua | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
language-lua
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
nelua-lang
Posts with mentions or reviews of nelua-lang.
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- Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language
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Lua has been a real eye opener for this Java dev
If you Like Lua's syntax and you wish you could achieve C speeds and have the metaprogramming ability of Java (Generics), by all means try https://nelua.io/ , you won't regret it!
- Minimal, simple, efficient, statically typed, compiled, metaprogrammable, safe, and extensible systems programming language
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Pixelhopper: Tiny animated GIF player in C, with seeking, pause, etc (Linux x11 only, for now)
I should be uploading the code sometime this week, by the way. I'm looking for a way to bundle the code (which is written in Nelua) in a single C file, so anyone can build it without having to install all of the language and the dependencies.
- Using Lua with C++
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Is it possible to make an OS in Lua?
You could probably write a kernel in Nelua or Luau, though I don't know of any efforts to do so.
- Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language
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Nelua, AOT statically typed Lua
I already asked this question exactly 2 years ago: https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/51
- data types in function definition
What are some alternatives?
When comparing language-lua and nelua-lang you can also consider the following projects:
liquidhaskell - Liquid Types For Haskell
terra - Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.