Top 4 Lua Compiler Projects

tl

54 1,931 7.7 Lua

The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

Project mention: Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-18

it's based off MIR, does it have something to do with https://mlir.llvm.org/ ?
for typed lua, there is another effort https://github.com/teal-language/tl in addition to the mentioned typescript approach: https://github.com/andremm/typedlua

nelua-lang

31 1,842 7.8 Lua

Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.

Project mention: Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-26

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
LuaRT-Studio

2 47 5.6 Lua

Lua 5.4 IDE for Windows with debugger and script to executable compiler
rtc

3 37 4.6 Lua

Lua script to executable compiler (by samyeyo)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-18.