Nelua Programming Language

1. nelua-lang

   1 35 2,260 6.2 Lua

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

   

   A discussion about GC and memory management can be found here https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/70

   Maybe it can answer to some parts of your reasoning? :/

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3. terra

   2 43 2,832 5.3 C++

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

   

   Seems to have some overlap with Terra (https://terralang.org/).

4. nelua-decl

   3 1 51 2.2 Lua

   C binding generator for Nelua using GCC Lua plugin.

   

5. mir

   4 23 2,461 8.7 C

   A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR

   

   > I wish C was scriptable

   C kinda can be used as scripting language with MIR project https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir

   It was released just a few days ago, and I've successfully use it as an alternative and fast C compiler with Nelua.

6. ravi

   5 6 1,225 5.6 C

   Ravi is a dialect of Lua, featuring limited optional static typing, JIT and AOT compilers

   

7. moonjit

   6 1 511 0.0 C

   Discontinued Just-In-Time Compiler for the Lua Programming language. Fork of LuaJIT to continue development. This project does not have an active maintainer, see https://twitter.com/siddhesh_p/status/1308594269502885889?s=20 for more detail.

   

8. moonscript

   7 40 3,350 4.2 Lua

   :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

   

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10. LuaJIT

    8 57 5,185 8.0 C

    Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository

    

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