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)
luaprompt
An embeddable Lua command prompt as well as a stand-alone interpreter with pretty-printing and autocompletion. (by dpapavas)
| luax | luaprompt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 35 | 91 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.5 | 4.4 | |
| 6 days ago | 10 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
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.”
luaprompt
Posts with mentions or reviews of luaprompt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
-
A good REPL solution
luaprompt (https://github.com/dpapavas/luaprompt). ”An embeddable Lua command prompt as well as a stand-alone interpreter with pretty-printing and autocompletion.”
What are some alternatives?
When comparing luax and luaprompt you can also consider the following projects:
ilua - Interactive Lua
ilua - Portable Lua kernel for Jupyter
xLua - xLua is a lua programming solution for C# ( Unity, .Net, Mono) , it supports android, ios, windows, linux, osx, etc.
lede - Lean's LEDE source
rlwrap - A readline wrapper
nmap - Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.