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Top 10 Rust luau Projects

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  1. qsv

    Blazing-fast Data-Wrangling toolkit

    Project mention: Qsv: Fast Data-Wrangling Toolkit | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-19

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  3. mlua

    High level Lua 5.5/5.4/5.3/5.2/5.1 (including LuaJIT) and Luau bindings to Rust with async/await support

    Project mention: Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-05

  4. StyLua

    A Lua code formatter

  5. lune

    A standalone Luau runtime

    Project mention: lute VS lune - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/lute | 2026-05-05

  6. luac-parser-rs

    lua bytecode parser written in Rust using nom, part of metaworm's lua decompiler, support lua51/lua52/lua53/lua54/luajit/luau https://luadec.metaworm.site/

  7. darklua

    A command line tool that transforms Lua code

  8. vectarine

    A free cross-platform game engine focusing on fast prototyping and having fun with Luau scripting

    Project mention: Raylib v6.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-23

    I am currently working on a framework/engine hybrid called vectarine [1] where I make my game with code while still enjoying niceties of an engine like hot reloading, integrated debugging, asset management etc.

    [1] https://github.com/vanyle/vectarine

  9. script-bench-rs

    Rust embedded scripting languages benchmark

    Project mention: One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-31

    - There's this benchmark with a lot of string manipulation made by somebody else where we roughly match Lua: https://github.com/khvzak/script-bench-rs

  10. seal

    A simple, user-friendly, and useful runtime for Luau (by seal-runtime)

    Project mention: Fast Lua runtime written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-24

  11. json-schema-to-luau

    Convert JSON Schema to Luau type definitions with full support for constraints and advanced schema features.

    Project mention: JSON Schema → Luau type converter (Rust) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-14
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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source luau projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 qsv 3,666
2 mlua 2,740
3 StyLua 2,222
4 lune 895
5 luac-parser-rs 315
6 darklua 217
7 vectarine 118
8 script-bench-rs 89
9 seal 38
10 json-schema-to-luau 4

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