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luau-lang/luau

Position in GitHub’s trending lists, facts from the GitHub API and the README, and the star history recorded by this site.

Collected

A small, fast, and embeddable programming language based on Lua with a gradual type system.

Where it is trending

ListPositionStars gained
cpp, today#6+9 today

Star history recorded by this site

One reading per day since Oct 18, 2026, the first day this repository was seen in a trending list. A chart is drawn once three days have been recorded.

  1. 5,998+1
  2. 5,997

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Trending on githubtrending.today: #6 cpp
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README

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Positions, star totals and “stars gained” are the ones GitHub published, read at Oct 19, 2026, 07:00 UTC. The README paragraph and the install command are copied automatically and are not reviewed.

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How many stars does luau-lang/luau have?

5,998 stars and 679 forks when GitHub’s trending page was read on Oct 19, 2026, 07:00 UTC. GitHub reported 9 new stars for the period of the list it appears in.

What is luau-lang/luau written in, and under which license?

GitHub classifies it as C++. Its license has not been read by our collector yet.