lilu — static LuaJIT runtime, batteries included.

Lilu is a statically compiled LuaJIT interpreter bundled with everything you need to build productive tools on Linux.

One binary, under 2MB, no dependencies. Core components:

• Filesystem & Processes: File operations, process manipulation, pipes, forks.

• Networking: TCP/UDP with TLS 1.3 support, a full HTTP(S) client, and an HTTP(S)/1.1 server. TLS is backed by LiTLS.

• Cryptography: hashing, HMAC, Ed25519, X.509

• Terminal UI: UTF-8 aware terminal I/O, styling via TSS (Terminal Style Sheets), and a set of widgets for building CLI apps.

• MNEME: Embedded key-value DB with full text/vector search support and encryption at rest.

• Extras: JSON, Markdown processing and rendering, Redis protocol support, WireGuard client.

lilush — Linux Lua Shell on top of lilu

lilush extends lilu with a modular Linux Shell (as in Bash, Csh or Fish). Lilush Shell features:

• Rich prompts: host, user, directory, git info, python venv.

• Completions & navigation: Tab completions with scrolling, fast directory navigation and history search in the spirit of McFly and zoxide.

• Built-in tools: kat (file viewer + pager), lem editor, netstat, dig, wgcli (wireguard CLI), etc.

• Extensibility: Add your own plugins. Style everything with TSS.

Get started

# Download the latest release
curl -fLO "https://codeberg.org/latimar/lilush/releases/download/latest/lilush"

# Install
chmod +x lilush
install -Dm755 lilush ~/.local/bin/lilush

Release binaries are signed with my SSH key. See the repository for verification instructions.

On naming

• The project as a whole is named Lilush, which is a portmanteau abbreviation of "Linux Lua Shell".

• The minimal build without the shell is Lilu, the binary is lilu.

• The full build with shell is Lilush Shell, the binary is lilush.

Built with Lilush

Projects built on the lilu runtime:

RELIW — A Redis-backed HTTP server & framework.

RECALL — A caching recursive DNS server.

zxkitty — A ZX80 emulator for the terminal.