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Kritzel Kratzel, Andrew Starks2

7:13 AM

[ANN] LuaCOM - reborn

This looks awesome and thank you for doing this work. Just from an outsider's perspective, I was

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[ANN] LuaCOM - reborn

This looks awesome and thank you for doing this work. Just from an outsider's perspective, I was

7:13 AM

Björn Buckwalter, ppp vvv2

Mar 30

FFI to conveniently export Lua functions as a DLL?

There is already luaL_dostring in lua.dll that allows to call lua code from C, but you would need to

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FFI to conveniently export Lua functions as a DLL?

There is already luaL_dostring in lua.dll that allows to call lua code from C, but you would need to

Mar 30

Kritzel Kratzel

Mar 29

[ANN] OneLuaPro Release 5.5.0.1 is available

Release notes and downloads here: https://github.com/OneLuaPro/OneLuaPro/releases/tag/v5.5.0.1

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[ANN] OneLuaPro Release 5.5.0.1 is available

Release notes and downloads here: https://github.com/OneLuaPro/OneLuaPro/releases/tag/v5.5.0.1

Mar 29

Mar 27

locale-related tests aren't guarded by _port in testes/literals.lua

Hi list, I'm experimenting with Lua tests shipped along with Lua Git repository[1], and found a

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locale-related tests aren't guarded by _port in testes/literals.lua

Hi list, I'm experimenting with Lua tests shipped along with Lua Git repository[1], and found a

Mar 27

Mar 25

[ANN] luaunbound 1.1.0 released

Hello, I have tagged version 1.1.0 of luaunbound, a Lua binding to the libunbound DNS library. It

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[ANN] luaunbound 1.1.0 released

Hello, I have tagged version 1.1.0 of luaunbound, a Lua binding to the libunbound DNS library. It

Mar 25

Brisbane Silicon, … Roberto Ierusalimschy4

Mar 23

Nice to meet you all too! The links should be working now. The Lua version is 5.4, using 32-bit

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Nice to meet you all too! The links should be working now. The Lua version is 5.4, using 32-bit

Mar 23

Lourival Vieira Neto

Mar 23

[ANN] luanftables - Lua binding for libnftables

Hi folks, We've released luanftables, a Lua binding for libnftables. nftables is the Linux kernel

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[ANN] luanftables - Lua binding for libnftables

Hi folks, We've released luanftables, a Lua binding for libnftables. nftables is the Linux kernel

Mar 23

Francisco Olarte, Roberto Ierusalimschy7

Mar 19

VM/GC question for gurus.

Just for the archives: On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 at 18:59, Francisco Olarte <[email protected]>

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VM/GC question for gurus.

Just for the archives: On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 at 18:59, Francisco Olarte <[email protected]>

Mar 19

Manuel Hernandez, … Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo3

Mar 18

[Job] Remote Lua developers for AI code evaluation ($55–$70/hr)

Abusive language and behavior is not acceptable here. The message has been deleted from the archives

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[Job] Remote Lua developers for AI code evaluation ($55–$70/hr)

Abusive language and behavior is not acceptable here. The message has been deleted from the archives

Mar 18

Weixie Cui, Roberto Ierusalimschy2

Mar 11

[PATCH] BUG: Missing 'lua_State' parameter in 'floatforloop'

> 'floatforloop' uses 'L' in 'luai_numadd(L, idx, step)' but does > not

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[PATCH] BUG: Missing 'lua_State' parameter in 'floatforloop'

> 'floatforloop' uses 'L' in 'luai_numadd(L, idx, step)' but does > not

Mar 11

Kritzel Kratzel

Mar 11

[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.5.0.0 released

It's official - OneLuaPro now fully supports Lua 5.5. Downloads: https://github.com/OneLuaPro/

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[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.5.0.0 released

It's official - OneLuaPro now fully supports Lua 5.5. Downloads: https://github.com/OneLuaPro/

Mar 11

Vadim (vadcx), … Roberto Ierusalimschy3

Mar 9

table.unpack does not produce a line number on error

> When table.unpack encounters an error (such as the above or "attempt to get length of a

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table.unpack does not produce a line number on error

> When table.unpack encounters an error (such as the above or "attempt to get length of a

Mar 9

nobody, … Roberto Ierusalimschy3

Mar 7

Observations from a bytecode validation feasibility experiment

> As an example, VARARGPREP is tagged as A ("instruction sets register A") > even

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Observations from a bytecode validation feasibility experiment

> As an example, VARARGPREP is tagged as A ("instruction sets register A") > even

Mar 7

Ross Burton, Yao Zi2

Mar 5

Dynamic loading of libreadline opens wrong library filename

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 06:14:25AM -0800, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > As of lua 5.5[1]

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Dynamic loading of libreadline opens wrong library filename

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 06:14:25AM -0800, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > As of lua 5.5[1]

Mar 5

Mar 3

[PATCH] Add support for CYGWIN.

Hello, I would like to share my patch for supporting CYGWIN into LUA. The patch just needs few simple

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[PATCH] Add support for CYGWIN.

Hello, I would like to share my patch for supporting CYGWIN into LUA. The patch just needs few simple

Mar 3

重归混沌, … Philippe Verdy10

Mar 2

Question about SETFIELD nil emission in table constructor codegen

Not really: a table literal can be copied/instantiated much faster without using Lua bytecode

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Question about SETFIELD nil emission in table constructor codegen

Not really: a table literal can be copied/instantiated much faster without using Lua bytecode

Mar 2

Richard Beckmann, … Sewbacca6

Mar 2

__builtin_expect function isn't available in gcc below version 3

For completion's sake: yes it can be configured to do that, run luarocks config variables.CFLAGS

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__builtin_expect function isn't available in gcc below version 3

For completion's sake: yes it can be configured to do that, run luarocks config variables.CFLAGS

Mar 2

Weixie Cui, … Philippe Verdy5

Feb 26

[PATCH v3] Fix variadic type mismatch in pushutfchar -- passes long but %U expects unsigned long

Also if "%U" means UTF-8, the only acceptable values for a standard result must be positive

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[PATCH v3] Fix variadic type mismatch in pushutfchar -- passes long but %U expects unsigned long

Also if "%U" means UTF-8, the only acceptable values for a standard result must be positive

Feb 26

Feb 26

[PATCH] fix: should process return value aux_close

From: Weixie Cui <[email protected]> aux_close may return failed that should be handle.

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[PATCH] fix: should process return value aux_close

From: Weixie Cui <[email protected]> aux_close may return failed that should be handle.

Feb 26

Sewbacca, … Denis Dos Santos Silva6

Feb 21

A few questions about memory allocation

Is it possible to allocate data on the stack rather than the heap? you can try implement a `arena

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A few questions about memory allocation

Is it possible to allocate data on the stack rather than the heap? you can try implement a `arena

Feb 21

Arnaud Delobelle, … Martin Eden5

Feb 21

ANN] Golua v0.2.0 (implementing Lua 5.5)

On 2026-02-20 18:59, [email protected] wrote: > Does it provide a packager to bundle Lua app

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ANN] Golua v0.2.0 (implementing Lua 5.5)

On 2026-02-20 18:59, [email protected] wrote: > Does it provide a packager to bundle Lua app

Feb 21

Lars Müller, John Belmonte2

Feb 19

Link rot on the Lua Wiki

I've removed the offending item from LuaLinks. On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM 'Lars Müller

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Link rot on the Lua Wiki

I've removed the offending item from LuaLinks. On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM 'Lars Müller

Feb 19

Ben Sivan, … Andrey Dobrovolsky6

Feb 18

[ANN] Luam: A minimalist, procedural Lua dialect for CAD (Luametry)‏

Hi Ben, Lua without closures and metatables is like Lisp without parentheses. Just a joke, I don'

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[ANN] Luam: A minimalist, procedural Lua dialect for CAD (Luametry)‏

Hi Ben, Lua without closures and metatables is like Lisp without parentheses. Just a joke, I don'

Feb 18

Sergey Bronnikov, … Roberto Ierusalimschy6

Feb 18

Undefined behavior in utf8_decode()

> there is an issue with undefined behavior in lutf8lib.c because shift > exponent may be too

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Undefined behavior in utf8_decode()

> there is an issue with undefined behavior in lutf8lib.c because shift > exponent may be too

Feb 18

Andre Leiradella, … Roberto Ierusalimschy15

Feb 18

Unaligned memory access

> > I think what they meant is you can pass a custom allocator function in > lua_newstate()

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Unaligned memory access

> > I think what they meant is you can pass a custom allocator function in > lua_newstate()

Feb 18

Sergey Bronnikov, … Yao Zi5

Feb 17

An unsigned overflow in luai_makeseed()

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 01:50:39AM -0800, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > Hello, > > the function

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An unsigned overflow in luai_makeseed()

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 01:50:39AM -0800, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > Hello, > > the function

Feb 17

Kritzel Kratzel, … Błażej Roszkowski7

Feb 15

Table length evaluations --> Lua 5.5 vs. Lua 5.4

The comment in ltable.c line 1291 above luaH_getn: ** Try to find a border in table 't'. (A

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Table length evaluations --> Lua 5.5 vs. Lua 5.4

The comment in ltable.c line 1291 above luaH_getn: ** Try to find a border in table 't'. (A

Feb 15

Marcus Lund, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo2

Feb 14

luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

> Regarding noparser.c at https://www.lua.org/extras/ > > The luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

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luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

> Regarding noparser.c at https://www.lua.org/extras/ > > The luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

Feb 14

Mabrooka “Yosr” Ben Belgacem, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo2

Feb 12

[PATCH] liblua: link shared library against libm to fix undefined sinh on glibc

> While running unit tests in a glibc-based environment, I encountered a runtime > issue when

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[PATCH] liblua: link shared library against libm to fix undefined sinh on glibc

> While running unit tests in a glibc-based environment, I encountered a runtime > issue when

Feb 12

Kritzel Kratzel

Feb 12

[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 – Event-driven Multi-threading and SQLite3+sqlean Integration

Hi everyone, OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 has been released. This update introduces significant changes to the

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[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 – Event-driven Multi-threading and SQLite3+sqlean Integration

Hi everyone, OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 has been released. This update introduces significant changes to the

Feb 12

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