lit vs luvi

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lit		luvi
	Project
3	Mentions	1
239	Stars	293
0.4%	Growth	3.4%
1.0	Activity	5.7
15 days ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Lua	Language	C
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

lit

Posts with mentions or reviews of lit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-19.

Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022

Another project that uses git as a storage medium is a package server for the node.js API implemented in Lua: https://github.com/luvit/lit.
Both serve files from a git repository, and lit will actually write to the repository.
Proxies with luvit api
1 project | /r/lua | 27 Jan 2022

Hello would it be possible to use proxies with the luvit/coro-http api? https://github.com/luvit/lit https://bilal2453.github.io/coro-docs/docs/coro-http.html It doesn't seem to be anywhere and I really need this.
Problems installing Luvit, a Lua environment
2 projects | /r/termux | 8 Aug 2021

luvi

Posts with mentions or reviews of luvi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Issues compiling binary (ARM)
1 project | /r/termux | 11 Aug 2021

One more thing: if you are building because Luvit is not precompiled for your architecture, you will need to follow the instructions found here: https://github.com/luvit/luvi/issues/236

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lit and luvi you can also consider the following projects:

luarocks - LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language.

sysbench - Scriptable database and system performance benchmark

packer.nvim - A use-package inspired plugin manager for Neovim. Uses native packages, supports Luarocks dependencies, written in Lua, allows for expressive config

kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor

paq-nvim - 🌚 Neovim package manager

moonjit - Just-In-Time Compiler for the Lua Programming language. Fork of LuaJIT to continue development. This project does not have an active maintainer, see https://twitter.com/siddhesh_p/status/1308594269502885889?s=20 for more detail.

proot - chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc without privilege/setup for Linux

fs - Provide cross platform file operations based on libuv.

proot - An chroot-like implementation using ptrace.

Discordia - Discord API library written in Lua for the Luvit runtime environment

luv - Bare libuv bindings for lua