Deflua: a pure-Elixir Lua 5.3 VM for the BEAM

A sandboxed Lua VM inside Elixir enables untrusted user scripts, plugins, formulas, and agent tools without native extensions

Announcing https:// deflua.com The new home for Lua, the pure-Elixir Lua 5.3 VM for @elixirlang . Scriptable, sandboxed, stupid easy. Embed untrusted code (AI agent tools, user formulas, plugins) all on the BEAM, zero NIFs. Plus a
Ranked #13 on backlist 2026-06-04 (04 Jun 2026 UTC) · by (Dave Lucia) ·

How it ranks: Backlist reads my Twitter/X timeline, scores every tweet for substance with an LLM rubric (not engagement), and publishes the daily top picks with a one-line takeaway. Curated by Surya Dantuluri.