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biome
A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP.
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Wren
The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
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vos
Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language
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luax
Moved to Codeberg, this repo is just a (temporary) mirror -- luax is a Lua interpreter and REPL based on Lua 5.4, augmented with some useful packages. It is also a "compiler" that produces standalone executables from Lua scripts.
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- Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust
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Lune: Standalone Luau Runtime
I can assume that Lune (and many of the Rust-based Luau runtimes that followed it) were written in Rust mainly because of the existence of mlua <https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua> and the bindings it provides for Luau. Binding Luau in Zig or C isn't as plug-and-play but is still relatively easy, binding Luau in Go is a nightmare. I'm working on better Luau support for Go, and some others support/binding libraries for other languages are also in development, which is awesome to see and will hopefully bring more language diversity to the Luau ecosystem.
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Koto Programming Language
This is already available as an optional Lua target in mlua [0]. I recently built a programmable server for Server-Sent Events scriptable with Lua [1]. I chose Lua 5.4, but it's trivial to switch it to LuaJIT, or really any other Lua derivative including Roblox Luau. It's just a matter of enabling the mlua feature you want.
[0] https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua
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Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust
Is there something in specific that makes this easier to use in Rust projects compared to the Lua wrappers/bindings like mlua[0]? Or is it just an overall ergonomics thing?
Genuine question, as I don't have any prior experience embedding any scripting language into a Rust project.
[0]: https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua
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LuaX – Lua interpreter, REPL and useful packages
If you want it to interact well with a couple of really popular languages there's this:
https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua
Rust and through Deno, JavaScirpt.
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