luax
luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4, augmented with some useful packages. It is also a "compiler" that produces standalone executables from Lua scripts. (by CDSoft)
ilua
Portable Lua kernel for Jupyter (by guysv)
| luax | ilua | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 35 | 112 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.5 | 0.0 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| C | Lua | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
luax
Posts with mentions or reviews of luax.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
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A good REPL solution
LuaX (https://github.com/CDSoft/luax). “luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4.4, augmented with some useful packages. luax can also produces standalone executables from Lua scripts.”
ilua
Posts with mentions or reviews of ilua.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
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A good REPL solution
ILua (https://github.com/guysv/ilua). “ILua is a feature-packed, portable console and Jupyter kernel for the Lua language.”
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improved repl for lua?
In practice, though, I don't need to look for anything better because I ditched it in favour of using ilua, which is just a console frontend to a Jupyter Lua kernel. Or just using Jupyter directly.
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Thank you for lua.org/demo.html
Or better yet, use iLua for a much nicer interactive experience. Or set up a Jupyter kernel so you can have a persistent testing ground for Lua stuff. Or use repl.it, which can do both plain Lua and Love2d REPLs.
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Does Lua not allow top level expressions?
I hadn't even noticed. I use ILua instead of the built-in REPL if I'm doing anything longer than a single function, and Debian has lua linked to Lua 5.2 even with 5.3 installed so that's what I interact with when I run the basic interpreter to check something quickly. I could change that easily enough but then I'd have to swap it back to automatic later and I'd probably forget so I just don't bother. lol
What are some alternatives?
When comparing luax and ilua you can also consider the following projects:
ilua - Interactive Lua
lua-repl - A Lua REPL implemented in Lua for embedding in other programs
xLua - xLua is a lua programming solution for C# ( Unity, .Net, Mono) , it supports android, ios, windows, linux, osx, etc.
upm - ⠕ Universal Package Manager - Python, Node.js, Ruby, Emacs Lisp.
lede - Lean's LEDE source
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