Top 5 Lua Language Projects

moonscript

35 3,118 4.4 Lua

:crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

Project mention: Why Fennel? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-13

Now I like lua, and think single pass is the way to go for interpreted, since you don't have the disadvantage of a slow compile time no matter how big your codebase gets, BUT its not great to write in. things like +=, ++, are not possible, which means the only solution is to transpile into it, which has led to some good languages like moonscript[0], teal[1] which offers static type checking, an absolute must as your codebase grows.
[0]: https://moonscript.org/

nelua-lang

32 1,852 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: Nelua: Statically typed language with a Lua flavor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

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.
language-lua

0 11 2.5 Lua

Lua parser and pretty-printer
nutoad

1 1 0.0 Lua

a compliant brainfuck interpreter with subroutines
Crino

1 0 4.1 Lua

Crino is an open-source multilingual DSL and library in pure lua.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).