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  • Jacobin: Minimal JVM written in Go and capable of running Java 17 classes
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023
    https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua

    Unless you specifically need a JVM either of these will be a much more practical and mature choice for embedded scripting.

    Alternatively if you prefer JS then Otto is a good choice:

  • Are there any Golang Lua VMs that support snapshotting/serializationi?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 20 Dec 2022
    Do you know about go-lua? There's a good discussion of various go lua implementations here, including this choice quote:
  • Change go code behaviour at runtime
    10 projects | /r/golang | 10 Oct 2022
    There are lua and Go-script options. My impression is that a few are well accepted but perhaps just a little less widely used than the first two. I cannot speak from personal experience on them. Shopify has a Lua 5.2 port: https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua and I know https://github.com/bitfield/script is one of the Go-like scripting languages, but I think it's more for a shell script replacement than embedding.
  • Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2021
    GopherLua [0] is a Lua implementation written in Go, not just a wrapper around the C implementation.

    The main alternative seems to be Shopify’s go-lua [1], given that Microsoft’s golua [2] is no longer being developed. The main difference between these three implementations seems to be the supported Lua version - 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 respectively.

    [0] https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua

    [1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua

    [2] https://github.com/Azure/golua

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Shopify/go-lua is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

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