Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
by trescenzi on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:14AM
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This is what culture is right? Different sorts of people are attracted to different sorts of things and so the culture that builds around those things is somewhat self reinforcing. Lua's culture mirrors its core and attracts people who like simple extensible solutions to problems. This looks like a pretty compelling simple extensible tool. Hopefully the development continues and doesn't drop off like Luapower. I do wish it had first class fennel support but that's really easy to add.
Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
by epicfile on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:37PM
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I've been working on it since 2022, and so far there are no plans to stop the development, given that it's my daily driver shell and scripting tool.
Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
by tiffanyh on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:46AM
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Lua is designed for the use case of being embedded.
> "Lua: an extensible embedded language"
Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
by rainingmonkey on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:18AM
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Also loosely related: Redbean is a webserver in a single-file that runs natively on six OSes for both AMD64 and ARM64
Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell
by aa-jv on Monday February 23, 2026 @05:40AM
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Another one - LuaTurbo:
https://turbo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Lua, with batteries included, like a swiss army knife ..
From a first glance, this is the second somewhat opinionated, compact, minimal-dependency interpreter/shell/library bundle despite the Lua(JIT) ecosystem being tiny. The other example I have in mind for this would've been luapower, which sadly became somewhat inactive.
I really like the simplicity of the language and the speed and compactness of its implementation. The JIT is also the real deal, with millisecond cold start execution delays unlike Julia, which masquerades as a JIT/interpreted language while featuring dog slow (by comparison) LLVM ("pre-")compilation under the hood (core language, type system, package management and interoperability concepts are admittedly nice in Julia though).