High level Lua bindings to Rust
rlua is now deprecated in favour of mlua: see below for migration information
rlua is now a thin transitional wrapper around
mlua; it is recommended to use mlua
directly for new projects and to migrate to it when convenient. mlua was a
fork of rlua which has recently seen more development activity and new
features.
rlua 0.20 includes some utilities to help transition to mlua, but is otherwise
just re-exporting mlua directly.
The main changes are:
In mlua, Lua::context() is no longer necessary. The methods previously on
Context can now be called directly on the Lua object. rlua 0.20 includes
an RluaCompat extension trait which adds a context() method which can be used
to avoid having to update code all at once.
The ToLua trait has been renamed to IntoLua, and its conversion method to_lua
is now into_lua. rlua 0.20 includes ToLua as an alias for IntoLua and an
extension ToLuaCompat which adds a to_lua method as a temporary convenience.
A few other changes which should be less disruptive:
mlua has different defaults and options for blocking loading C libraries or
compiled modules from Lua code or catching Rust panics. Check the Lua::new_with
and unsafe variants for the new options.No open issues yet, or sync has not completed.