go-lua

Not the parent but there are several high quality native (meaning no CGO) Lua implementations for Go and it's a great choice if you want an embedded scripting language: https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua Unless you specifically need a JVM either of these will be a much more practical and mature choice for embedded scripting. Alternatively if you prefer JS then Otto is a good choice: https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto

GopherLua [0] is a Lua implementation written in Go, not just a wrapper around the reference implementation (written in C). The main alternative seems to be Shopify’s go-lua [1], given that Microsoft’s golua [2] is no longer being developed. The main difference between these three implementations seems to be the supported Lua version - 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 respectively. Of course, the reference implementation is now on version 5.4 - these are all considered different major versions of the language (Lua doesn’t use SemVer). [0] https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua [1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua [2] https://github.com/Azure/golua

You can embed lua into one of the supported frameworks, e.g. https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua

There are a couple different Lua implementations in Go. Has anyone researched the difference between them? https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua https://github.com/milochristiansen/lua https://github.com/afitz/golua

I love this type of projects. Relevant: https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto (JavaScript interpreter in go) https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua Lua VM in go

V8 is large and not actually that easy to embed. There is a pure Go implementation of Lua for scripting already [1] [1] https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua