As others have noted, this is not actually a Lua engine written in Rust. It is a wrapper over existing C/C++ implementations of Lua. There is, however, an actual Lua engine written in Rust. It is called piccolo.[0]

[0] https://github.com/kyren/piccolo

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znpy an hour ago | parent [-]

Is this one of those things that claims to be fast purely by virtue of being written in rust?

	▲	gpm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Considering one of the project goals at the top of the readme is "Don't be obnoxiously slow" obviously not - it doesn't claim to be fast at all.