Well, the biggest difference is that it's written in Lua. And it uses LuaJIT not vanilla Lua. (LuaJIT being orders of magnitude faster) And from what I can tel

Well, the biggest difference is that it's written in Lua. And it uses LuaJIT not vanilla Lua. (LuaJIT being orders of magnitude faster) And from what I can tell, iphonewax is intended for writing entire apps in lua, this project is intended to be used when embedding bits of lua code in your objc app. (But there's nothing stopping you from writing most of your app in it)