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lua.js
JavaScript2012–2017
mherkender / lua.js

lua.js

An ECMAscript framework to compile and run Lua code, allowing Lua to run in a browser or in Flash

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609GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

An ECMAscript framework to compile and run Lua code, allowing Lua to run in a browser or in Flash

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:02:50 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-07-22 12:56:53 UTC to 2017-03-18 07:50:24 UTC.

0123452012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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daurnimator·Mar 18, 2017
Other interesting projects: - https://github.com/giann/fengari - new project, most exciting IMO - https://github.com/daurnimator/lua.vm.js - emscripten based, has best interactions with DOM (but is a dead end) - http://www.moonshinejs.org/ - no longer maintained, interesting model though - https://github.com/paulcuth/starlight - transpiler: you loose ability to use proper coroutines which are IMO most interesting feature for lua in browser - https://github.com/creationix/brozula/ - unmaintained - https://github.com/logiceditor-com/lua5.1.js - https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js
In Lua VM running in a WASM environment

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