Sol2 Alternatives

sol2 reviews and mentions

• Lua Programming in Lua (first edition)
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2025

  PSA: if you are using (modern) C++, https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2 makes embedding Lua incredibly easy and straightforward.

• Lua Is So Underrated
  27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2024

  The Lua C API is fantastic from a design perspective, but as you have discovered, it is rather error prone. Fortunately, there are many wrapper libraries that take care of all the stack manipulation. For example, I'm using https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2 to interface with C++ and the API is incredibly ergonomic.

• Any tips for how to make moddable games?
  4 projects | /r/gamedev | 20 May 2023

  As someone said, make the game data-driven is a good first step but I will say, also have some sort of way to add additional game logic. For C++ games, lua is really easy to embed the interpreter in your C++ binary, read in the files from a directory (like /mods) with the C++ filesystem api new in C++17, and it's very easy to use SoL to write an API for lua specific to your game. Many games use lua in this way and it's probably the most common mod path setup.

• Script Interoperability
  2 projects | /r/C_Programming | 28 Apr 2023

  I've only ever done this from C++, but it's using the same lua C library, so should be durable from C as well. You can look up how sol2 or any other wrapper libraries do it.

• Need help trying to embed lua in c++
  1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 24 Apr 2023

  Consider sol2

• CBN Changelog: December 3, 2022. Improved LUA support in progress!
  2 projects | /r/cataclysmbn | 3 Dec 2022

  This version relies on a Lua C++ wrapper called sol2 to hide Lua stack management from the developer, so creating new bindings can be done by adding a few lines of human-readable C++. It still has to be done manually, but at least sol2 is able to automatically figure out types of objects being bound, so it's not much different from our de-/serialization code.

• RTS programming game where you write real C++ code to control your player.
  4 projects | /r/cpp | 11 Nov 2022
• why?
  1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 20 Jun 2022

  Here's an example: sol2

• Tools for rolling your own engine
  9 projects | /r/gamedev | 16 May 2022

  Here is link number 2 - Previous text "Sol"

• Storing pointers to C++ data in Lua in a type-safe-ish manner that are comparable on the Lua side.
  1 project | /r/cpp | 12 Apr 2022

  Have you considered using sol2? https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2 Or if you don't want to switch over, you can at least look at their code and see how they handle this.

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