Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

Lua is meant to be embedded in another application, so its relevance depends on what applications you use. My main text editor is Neovim which uses Lua as one of its two built-in scripting languages (the other one being Vim script). A couple of other projects off the top of my head:

• love

  258 4,341 9.6 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

Löve2D (2D game engine which uses Lua for user logic)

• 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.

  

• awesome

  223 6,110 7.2 Lua

  awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)

  

awesomewm (tiling window manager configured in Lua)

• clp

  8 94 4.9 Lua

  writes input files to stdout with syntax highlighting (by jpe90)

It's super fast and has some really interesting libraries. I used parsing expression grammars to write a faster alternative to bat.

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