Sol2 Alternatives

sol2 reviews and mentions

• C++: The Documentary Released Today
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jun 2026

  Interesting, I don't find modern C++ verbose at all. 'auto', range-based for-loops and structured bindings did a great job at reducing the verbosity of C++98.

  On top of that, C++ allows to design very concise APIs. (One of my favorite examples is sol2: https://github.com/ThePhd/sol2).

  Library code involving templates, on the other hand, can be pretty complex and hard to read. Concepts and other C++20 features (like [[no_unique_address]]) are certainly an improvement, but only new projects with no backwards compatibility requirements can actually use them (unconditionally).

• Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2026
• Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2025

  Is it possible to use Pluto alongside with a binding library such as Sol2[0]? I don't mind not being able to set type hints in the bindings to use in some IDE, I can create stubs for it manually.

  [0]: https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2

• 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
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