Gravity Alternatives
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tl
The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
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luaforwindows
Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for the Lua scripting language on Windows. NOTICE: Looking for maintainer.
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Scout
Get performance insights in less than 4 minutes. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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Penlight
A set of pure Lua libraries focusing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management. Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries.
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inspect.lua
Human-readable representation of Lua tables
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pallene
Pallene Compiler
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wu
🐉 A practical game and data language
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heart
A high performance Lua web server with a simple, powerful API
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Lua's Lack of “Batteries”
This is gonna be subjective, because it depends on what your priorities are.
The two alternatives at the top of my list are Gravity and Wren. They are both designed for the same general profile that Lua has—a scripting language, safe to use, embeddable, with a small VM (low code size).
- https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity
The language design choices are nice and familiar to people who are used to other existing languages. Lua is a bit radical.
Two other options are AngelScript and Squirrel, which are both a bit older and more mature than Gravity and Wren. In my opinion they are
- http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/
Finally, it’s much more feasible these days to embed something like Mono, and Guile has gotten a lot better.
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marcobambini/gravity is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.