Bog – small, strongly typed, embeddable language

• tl

  54 1,935 7.7 Lua

  The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

  

Terra and Nelua are both very different in goals than Teal. Teal is literally gradual types integrated into Lua keeping as many of Lua's idioms as possible (to a fault[1]). Terra and Nelua are both very metaprogrammable systems programming languages. Nelua's goals are primarily to soften C's rough edges, comparable to something like Nim.

There's another one you missed in Pallene[2]. But again, it's goal was to optimize the stack sharing involved in using the C API. It also adds types though and maintains Lua idioms as much as possible.

[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/discussions/339

[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

• bog

  7 515 3.2 Zig

  Small, strongly typed, embeddable language.

Looking at the two of them, both awesome projects, not a competition but here are a few things I noticed. Cyber seems to have pretty good documentation (maybe Bog does too but I didn't find too much from the readme. For example, you can see Bog has a GC and its standard library supports JSON, but memory management and non-scalar data structures aren't mentioned in the Bog readme).

Cyber also seems to be under more active development at the moment.

https://github.com/vexu/bog/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/fubark/cyber/graphs/contributors

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• cyber

  12 1,071 9.6 Zig

  Fast and concurrent scripting.

Looking at the two of them, both awesome projects, not a competition but here are a few things I noticed. Cyber seems to have pretty good documentation (maybe Bog does too but I didn't find too much from the readme. For example, you can see Bog has a GC and its standard library supports JSON, but memory management and non-scalar data structures aren't mentioned in the Bog readme).

Cyber also seems to be under more active development at the moment.

https://github.com/vexu/bog/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/fubark/cyber/graphs/contributors

• luau

  64 3,595 9.0 C++

  A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua

  

• 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.

- https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang (to C)

• terra

  38 2,665 5.7 C++

  Terra is a low-level system programming language that is embedded in and meta-programmed by the Lua programming language.

  

• lua-language-server

  79 2,988 9.4 Lua

  A language server that offers Lua language support - programmed in Lua

  

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• pallene

  17 572 6.0 Lua

  Pallene Compiler

  

Terra and Nelua are both very different in goals than Teal. Teal is literally gradual types integrated into Lua keeping as many of Lua's idioms as possible (to a fault[1]). Terra and Nelua are both very metaprogrammable systems programming languages. Nelua's goals are primarily to soften C's rough edges, comparable to something like Nim.

There's another one you missed in Pallene[2]. But again, it's goal was to optimize the stack sharing involved in using the C API. It also adds types though and maintains Lua idioms as much as possible.

[1]: https://github.com/teal-language/tl/discussions/339

[2]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

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