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24 alternatives to Lua/C for mobile devices – Please tell me what you think

Software Development Platform for ARM / Android terminals - vladpalos/PrimaLuce

PrimaLuce is a software development platform designed for creating applications on ARM processors and Android devices. It enables developers to build mobile applications using Lua and C programming languages. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lua/C for mobile devices – Please tell me what you think launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Creo 1.0▲317

    The new way to build native mobile applications

    2018 · creolabs.com · its alternatives →

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    A reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) for all your apps

    2020 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    1d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The world’s development platform, in your pocket

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build native mobile apps for iOS and Android without code.

    2025 · bble.io · its alternatives →

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    Make iOS and Android apps with just a single JSON

    2016 · jasonette.com · its alternatives →

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    Write programs on desktop and mobile

    2023 · akkartik.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Build, deploy, and scale hybrid apps, the easy way

    2016 · ionic.io · its alternatives →

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    Kestra▲470

    All-in-one automation & orchestration platform

    2024 · kestra.io · its alternatives →

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    Single-codebase for Windows, Web, iOS, macOS, Android, Linux

    2020 · platform.uno · its alternatives →

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    a0.dev▲479

    Generate full mobile apps with AI

    2025 · a0.dev · its alternatives →

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    Fastest cloud dev environments for Android

    2024 · dashwave.io · its alternatives →

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    🌙 The minimal & fast library for functional user interfaces - kbrsh/moon

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lua + SQLite + musl libc running on x86. Contribute to ers35/luakernel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Felgo▲92

    Develop native apps for iOS & Android faster

    2019 · felgo.com · its alternatives →

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    A Wildflower IDE for touch devices. Contribute to pschanely/wildflower-touch development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…

    2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimal text-editor with lua scripting. Contribute to skx/kilua development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightwell▲262

    A simple tool for creating native iOS apps on Mac 💻 📲

    2018 · stuartkerrs.com · its alternatives →

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    fastlane▲145

    Easiest way to automated iOS and Android app deployments

    2022 · fastlane.tools · its alternatives →

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    Creo▲174

    App design and development reinvented

    2015 · creolabs.com · its alternatives →

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