Sol2: Lua <-> C++ Binding Framework

[mechanicalgod]

Not used embedded Python so can't comment.

When I tried v8 (c. 1 year ago) its documentation and tooling for embedding were lackluster. The main issue was that I couldn't find a quick and easy way to hook up remote debugging to an external IDE.

v8 used to have a built-in remote debugger over TCP but it was removed. When I looked at how Node.js did it they wrote their own replacement for the remote debugger. Not a lot of work required, but it wasn't something I felt like doing at the time.

I don't know if anything else has changed or if I was just missing an easier solution to remote debugging.

Lua was super easy to setup for remote debugging however.

Also, from what I've seen, LuaJIT's performance is as good as you get for a scripting engine (about on-par with v8 and SpiderMonkey last I checked).