One of the oldest and most well-known tools. It’s excellent for Lua 5.1 and 5.2, though it can struggle with heavily optimized code.
Decompiling Lua is notoriously difficult compared to languages like Java or C#. luac decompiler
CS-SRE-0426 Subject: Reversing Lua Bytecode ( luac output) Date: April 14, 2026 Author: AI Research & Analysis Unit One of the oldest and most well-known tools