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Languages that compile to Lua
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# lua-languages



## Languages that compile to Lua

Lua is famously and deceptively simple and enables many different programming paradigms. Like Javascript, it's possible to make it shine by adding more specialized syntax. I started this list to document the languages I found looking for an ML/F# like language.



Note: Unmaintained languages have been marked with (*) and Archived languages have been marked with (^)



Pull requests welcome!



### Compile to bytecode

An intriguing new avenue of development started by [Rochus Keller](https://github.com/rochus-keller) for an Oberon to LuaJIT bytecode compiler provides an elegant way of leveraging the ecosystem:

 - https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/

  Oberon compiler

 - (*) https://github.com/franko/luajit-lang-toolkit

  A Lua to LuaJIT bytecode compiler/toolkit to enable different language frontends and different compilation backends.

 - https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools 

  LuaJIT tools, a Qt5 GUI parser, browser, assembler and test VM for LuaJIT 2.0 bytecode



### VM forks

 - https://github.com/mingodad/ljs *ljs* JS-like syntax with modified VMs for PUC Lua, LuaJIT and RaptorJIT

 - https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto A superset of Lua 5.4 — with unique features, optimizations, and improvements.



### Tier 1

For lack of a better designator, these projects are well known, or compiles existing languages

 - http://yuescript.org/

 Yuescript, an extended and actively developed form of Moonscript.

 - http://moonscript.org/

 Moonscript, indentation based syntax, based on the ideas of Coffeescript.

 - http://haxe.org

 Haxe, strongly typed language with both functional and object-oriented features, that has multiple backends

 - https://github.com/yanghuan/CSharp.lua

 C# transpiler



### Go/Go-like

 - (*) https://github.com/gijit/gi translates Go into Lua. It targets LuaJIT for 64-bit integer support.

 - (*) https://github.com/theFox6/LuaVenusCompiler

 Transpiler for [Venus](https://github.com/retroverse/venus), a Go-like language

 - https://github.com/erde-lang/erde Transpiler with Go-like syntax favoring symbols over words



### Typed Lua

 - (^) https://github.com/devcat-studio/kailua

 KaiLua

 - https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

 Pallene, friendly fork of Titan

 - (*) https://github.com/titan-lang/titan-v0

 Titan

 - (*) https://github.com/ggVGc/Tua

 Tua

 - https://github.com/teal-language/tl 

 Teal

 - https://github.com/CapsAdmin/NattLua 

 NattLua



### Binary compiled Lua-like

 - https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi

 and http://ravilang.github.io/

 Ravi

 - http://terralang.org/

 Terra

 - https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang

 Nelua, Natively Extensible Lua

 

### Strongly typed

 - https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/

 Oberon

 - (*) https://github.com/wu-lang/wu Slightly Rusty with classes and traits



### Javascript

 - (*) https://github.com/PaulBernier/castl

 Javascript transpiler

 - (*) https://github.com/seanjensengrey/colony-js

 Javascript transpiler

 - (*) https://github.com/saharNooby/lua-js-syntax Javascript inspired syntax



### TypeScript

- https://github.com/roblox-ts/roblox-ts

- (*) https://github.com/ASDAlexander77/TypeScriptLua

- https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua



### Functional

- (^) https://amulet.works An ML-like functional programming language that transpiles to lua

- https://github.com/kindl/Hypatia Hypatia, an ML-like language that transpiles to Lua

- (*) https://github.com/ptol/oczor

Haskell-like language that compiles to Lua, Javascript, Emacs lisp and Ruby

- (*) https://github.com/iitalics/Lua-ML Basic ML language

- (*) https://github.com/hengestone/pumpkin ML-like language with an experimental Lua back-end

- https://github.com/minoki/LunarML A Standard ML compiler that produces Lua

- https://github.com/Russoul/Idris2-Lua A Lua backend for Idris 2

- https://github.com/Unisay/purescript-lua A Lua backed for [PureScript](https://github.com/purescript/purescript)

- https://github.com/coetaur0/nox A functional, statically typed programming language that compiles to Lua

 

### Lisp

There are so many Lisp variants, they deserve their own category.

 - (*) https://squiddev.github.io/urn/

 Urn, Lisp dialect, extensive libraries

 - https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel

 Lisp compiler and library

 - (*) https://github.com/meric/l2l

 l2l (lisp) superset of Lua

 - (*) https://github.com/larme/hua

 Hua, Lisp dialect

 - (*) http://leafo.net/moonlisp/

 Lisp implemented in Moonscript

 - (*) https://github.com/sctb/lumen Small Lisp

 - (*) https://github.com/bullno1/mLisp

 - (*) https://github.com/WeirdConstructor/lal

 Scheme

 - (*) https://github.com/adamrk/scheme2luac

 Scheme

 - https://github.com/LuxLang/lux

 Statically typed, functional lisp with an ML-like module system

 

 ### C

 - (*) https://github.com/davidgiven/clue

 

 ### Python

  - (*) https://github.com/MrVallentin/PyLua

  - (*) https://github.com/NeonMercury/python-lua

  - https://github.com/MhadhbiXissam/pythonicLua

  - https://github.com/AsynchronousAI/roblox-py

     Also compiles to C, C++, and Lunar, a modified version a MoonScript made for roblox.

 

### Ruby

 - (*) https://github.com/Kilobyte22/Mlc

 

### Rust

 - https://github.com/ClueLang/Clue

 Clue, a language similar to Rust that compiles to any version of Lua

 

### Unique

 - (*) https://github.com/presidentbeef/brat Brat, using [MoonJIT](https://github.com/moonjit/moonjit)

 - (*) https://github.com/richardhundt/shine Shine, using [TvmJit](https://github.com/perl11/tvmjit)

 - (*) https://github.com/apotheon/vortex Vortex 

 - (*) https://github.com/tommo/yu Yu

 - (*) https://github.com/Reuh/candran Candran

 - https://hurdy.apicici.com/ Hurdy

 

### Other

 - (*) https://github.com/marcoonroad/moonforth Forth to Lua transpiler

 - https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit vim9script to Lua transpiler