List of Lua derived VMs and Languages

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Is there a compendium of virtual machines and languages derived or inspired by Lua? By derived, I mean usage beyond embedding and extending with modules. I'm wanting to research the Lua technology tree, and am looking for our combined knowledge of what already exists.

Current List:

Bright - A C-like Lua Derivative http://bluedino.net/luapix/Bright.pdf
Agena - An Algol68/SQL like Lua Derivative http://agena.sourceforge.net/
LuaJIT - A (very impressive) JIT for Lua http://luajit.org
MetaLua - An ML-style language extension http://metalua.luaforge.net/

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '10 at 20:13

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There's a good list of Lua implementations on the lua users wiki, including compilers/interpreters, languages implemented in lua and languages based on lua.

Luaforge might also be a good resource.

answered Mar 26 '10 at 20:13

sjohnston

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Very embarrassed that I missed that page! However, the question has uncovered some more links that I'll do my best to add to this page. – Shane Holloway Mar 27 '10 at 16:35

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 19 '17 at 11:55

Squirrel -- high level imperative/OO programming language
GSL Shell -- interactive CLI with easy access to the GNU Scientific Library (GSL)
Objective Lua -- almost pure superset of Lua that welds the Objective C object orientation system and syntax on top of the classic Lua language
Jill -- Java Implementation of Lua Language
Dao -- OO programming language with soft (or optional) typing, BNF-like macro system
MoonScript -- CoffeeScript inspired language that compiles into lua

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '10 at 21:06

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It's just an implementation, not a list, but there's Lua-ML. There's an application paper and a technology paper. The code is a little out of date; apparently the nightly build at http://www.cminusminus.org/ is broken.

answered Mar 26 '10 at 21:06

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List of Lua derived VMs and Languages

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