Alternatives

Products that do what Rembulan, an implementation of Lua 5.3 for the JVM does

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Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk▲180
2020 · github.com
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Arturo – REBOL-inspired programming language and VM written in Nim▲324
2020 · github.com
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Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM▲107
2020 · github.com
4SA
Sailor, an MVC web framework in Lua▲61
2015 · github.com
5GA
Gter – A terminal for GUI apps▲185
2020 · github.com
6FL
F.lua, a functional Lua extension library▲5
2017 · github.com
7AA
Arc, an open-source Databricks alternative▲175
2021 · arc.tripl.ai
8SO
Superset of Lisp and Lua Programming Language, a la JSX▲38
2017 · github.com
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Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM▲116
2013 · blog.paralleluniverse.co
10TD
Titanoboa – distributed workflows for JVM (written in Clojure)▲12
2019 · titanoboa.io
11GA
Glua, a Full-Featured Lua VM for Nodejs and the Browser▲70
2017 · github.com
12PA
Phorth – A Forth-like language on the Python VM▲62
2017 · github.com
13NM
Neeilang: Minimalist OOP Language That Compiles to LLVM IR▲44
2020 · github.com
14LP
Lua Prototype of Elm's Time-Travelling Debugger▲53
2015 · github.com
15EE
Emulambda – Emulating AWS Lambda for Local Development▲19
2015 · blog.fugue.co
16OA
OJ – A Clojure library for talking to your database▲37
2014 · github.com
17PA
Piku, a Micro-PaaS for ARM and x86▲19
2019 · github.com
18JN
Jssembly – Native x86/x64/ARM Assembly via JNI Bridge in Java▲37
2014 · github.com
19TD
Titanoboa – distributed workflow platform for JVM written in clojure▲5
2018 · github.com
20S4
StringBean – 4K Featherweight Framework▲28
2016 · stringbean-lang.com
21UA
Unito – A sync engine for GitHub/JIRA/Wrike/Asana/+▲12
2016 · unito.io
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LambdaPi – Serverless Runtime Environment for LLM-Generated Code▲6
2023 · github.com
23AJ
Actionable JVM memory analysis▲11
2017 · github.com
24WA
Wisp – a Linux shell with Lua scripting and structured pipelines▲9
Aug 2026 · github.com

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