ANN] Golua v0.2.0 (implementing Lua 5.5)

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your continued work on Lua!

I've been maintaining a clean-room implementation of the Lua language
and standard library in Go (https://github.com/arnodel/golua). It
started in 2017 when I decided to try and implement Lua 5.3 in Go,
without consulting the Lua C source. Today more than 8 years later,
I'm releasing v0.2.0, which implements the Lua 5.5 language and its
standard library.

I know most of you might not use it, but I'm posting this with the
hope that some of you might be pleased that someone did this. It's
been purely a labour of love (love of programming, and love of
programming languages). Think of it as a homage to Lua! I've worked
on it on and off, sometimes with help and encouragement from people
who found a use for it, but mostly on my own and for my own enjoyment.

Headline features
- fully implements the Lua 5.5 language
- implemented the Lua 5.5 standard library
- easy to embed in Go programs
- easy to extend with Go code
- optionally provides "restricted execution environments" which allow
you to run Lua code while guaranteeing bounded use of resources
(memory, CPU, time, IO)

Kind regards,

--
Arnaud Delobelle

[Augusto Goulart]

Nice to see Lua implemented in Go, which in my opinion is the true successor* to C, not C++. I will take a look at it, great work Arnaud :)

*C is irreplaceable.

Augusto

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[Martin Eden]

On 2026-02-19 00:47, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thank you for your continued work on Lua!
>
> I've been maintaining a clean-room implementation of the Lua language
> and standard library in Go (https://github.com/arnodel/golua). It
> started in 2017 when I decided to try and implement Lua 5.3 in Go,
> without consulting the Lua C source. Today more than 8 years later,
> I'm releasing v0.2.0, which implements the Lua 5.5 language and its
> standard library.
>
> I know most of you might not use it, but I'm posting this with the
> hope that some of you might be pleased that someone did this. It's
> been purely a labour of love (love of programming, and love of
> programming languages). Think of it as a homage to Lua! I've worked
> on it on and off, sometimes with help and encouragement from people
> who found a use for it, but mostly on my own and for my own enjoyment.

Congratulations for getting such programming milestone!

-- Martin