Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts

• luau

  36 3,034 8.4 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

• lua-cmake

  0 18 10.0 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

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• rlua

  1 1,485 5.9 C

  High level Lua bindings to Rust

  

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

• mlua

  6 - -

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

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

• piccolo

  3 933 10.0 Rust

  An experimental Lua VM implemented in pure Rust (by triplehex)

  

• gopher-lua

  2 5,458 0.0 Go

  GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go

• fengari

  8 1,642 0.0 JavaScript

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

  

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• moonsharp

  2 1,245 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.

  

• lua-lockbox

  0 331 0.0 Lua

  A collection of cryptographic primitives written in pure Lua

• lanarts

  0 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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