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wasm_lua
C2017–2021
vvanders / wasm_lua

wasm_lua

Lua VM running in a WASM environment

5Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
804GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Lua VM running in a WASM environment

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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, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-03-18 04:06:09 UTC to 2021-04-24 22:55:52 UTC.

02462017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I mean Lua[1] exists, predates Javascript[2], is incredibly fast[3] and can be easily embedded[4]. I've personally shipped production game titles where the whole game state + logic was inside a 400kb block on a PSP where you only had 8MB of system ram, and this was before LuaJIT. Sadly, developer familiarity and ecosystem/mindshare sometimes dominate technical constraints, at least that's how we ended up with Javascript everywhere. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript [3] https://luajit.org/ [4] https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua
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