luarocks VS raylua

Compare luarocks vs raylua and see what are their differences.

luarocks

LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language. (by luarocks)

raylua

Cross-Platform, Modern, And updated LuaJIT bindings for raylib library. (by Rabios)
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luarocks raylua
13 2
3,073 75
1.6% -
9.1 2.9
19 days ago about 2 years ago
Lua Lua
MIT License MIT License
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luarocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of luarocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-10.

raylua

Posts with mentions or reviews of raylua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-07.
  • Could someone clarify Raylib for me?
    7 projects | /r/raylib | 7 Feb 2022
    I also found this gtihub repo, this one is using luaJIT a just in time lua compiler, i dont know if you have any python expirience but this one, but from what i understand luaJIT makes lua a language that can be compiled and run in your terminal, it aperently also has a comminty made package/library manager called cherry.
  • Starting with Lua
    1 project | /r/lua | 21 Nov 2021
    rayLib via rayLua

What are some alternatives?

When comparing luarocks and raylua you can also consider the following projects:

lit - Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries.

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

hererocks - Python script for installing Lua/LuaJIT and LuaRocks into a local directory

raylib-lua-sol - A simple and easy-to-use Lua library to enjoy videogames programming

lazy.nvim - 💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

godot-lua-pluginscript - Godot PluginScript for the Lua language, currently based on LuaJIT's FFI

snabb - Snabb: Simple and fast packet networking

paq-nvim - 🌚 Neovim package manager

cherry - Super LuaJIT package manager for everyone!

awesome-lua - A curated list of quality Lua packages and resources.

jaylib - Janet bindings to Raylib