Re: uses of Lua

On 2022年3月28日 at 14:13, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

Are there new relevant uses of Lua we should be aware of?
("new" ≈ released in the last year.)

Some interesting new Lua-based or related projects that crossed my radar in the past year or so:

- RedBean is a self-contained portable binary web server. It embeds Lua for dynamic page generation: https://redbean.dev/

- FullMoon extends RedBean's default Lua runtime with a more extensive framework for web applications: https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

- Lite XL is a GUI text editor written in Lua: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

- https://supershields.io/ is a web service that can dynamically generate "badges" (small informational images) backed by Lua scripts (dev docs: https://github.com/0ddParity/supershields/wiki/Supershields-scripting )

- Self-contained Lua 5.1 distribution (Go reimplementation): https://github.com/tongson/LadyLua

- Yuescript is a Moonscript dialect (compiles to Lua): https://github.com/pigpigyyy/Yuescript

- The mpv video player supports Lua plugins (not new), enabling experiments such as https://github.com/dfaker/VR-reversal/

- LuaRT is a Windows-focused Lua distribution/framework: https://www.luart.org/

- Roblox open-sourced their Lua-derived scripting language: https://luau-lang.org/

Follow-Ups:
- Re: uses of Lua, Marek Novak | ACRIOS Systems s.r.o.
- Re: uses of Lua, Jorge