Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts

1. luau

   1 73 4,538 9.1 C++

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

   

   It is nice small, so Lua even ran on Playstation 3 SPU!

   We used to ship lua binaries for the premake build system.

   For me, the indexed from 1 rather than 0 is a big turn off.

   Roblox has the mlua fork, https://github.com/Roblox/luau

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. lua-cmake

   2 1 28 0.0 CMake

   Embed lua with CMake

   

   Lua is a very nice piece of technology. Its source code is pretty easy to get into, the documentation is complete.

   It has its quirks yes, but if I need to add scripting to a software, I'd consider Lua before considering writing a DSL, simply because you can pretty much embed Lua's source in your C/C++ software as a static library[0].

   The stack-based approach makes it so easy to interact with C/C++, and I've been looking at the Rust bindings[1] recently out of curiosity, looks promising.

     [0] - https://github.com/lubgr/lua-cmake

4. rlua

   3 13 1,764 7.0 Rust

   High level Lua bindings to Rust

   

   [1] - https://github.com/amethyst/rlua/blob/master/examples/guided_tour.rs

5. mlua

   4 17 - -

   I believe mlua [0] is the recommended Lua Rust binding now.

   [0] https://github.com/khvzak/mlua

6. piccolo

   5 7 1,956 8.1 Rust

   An experimental stackless Lua VM implemented in pure Rust (by kyren)

   

7. gopher-lua

   6 8 6,610 4.5 Go

   GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go

   

8. fengari

   7 25 1,889 4.4 JavaScript

   🌙 φεγγάρι - The Lua VM written in JS ES6 for Node and the browser

   

9. SaaSHub

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10. moonsharp

    8 4 1,480 0.0 C#

    An interpreter for the Lua language, written entirely in C# for the .NET, Mono, Xamarin and Unity3D platforms, including handy remote debugger facilities.

    

11. lua-lockbox

    9 2 362 3.3 Lua

    A collection of cryptographic primitives written in pure Lua

    

12. lanarts

    10 1 1 0.0 C++

    lanarts is an open source RPG that attempts to play like a real-time rogue-like

    

    I looked at many options, what I lacked when I looked in this space is a big comparable project to, say, my game engine https://github.com/lanarts/lanarts that uses one of these typed Lua's. I'm not in a position where I can spend the time being the first - typescript has very mature idioms for large code bases

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