awesome-lua

LuaDist is a true multi-platform package management system that aims to provide both source and binary repository of modules for the Lua programming language

LuaForge was a software project hosring website set up in 2004 by André Carregal and the Kepler Project, to promote development of Lua software modules

LuaRocks is a system that allows the versioning of Lua packages and their dependencies. LuaRocks guarantees that every package installed will continue to work, even if its dependencies are updated

LuaBinaries is a distribution of the Lua libraries and executables compiled for several platforms

Decoda

Decoda Lua IDE and debugger

Lake

A Lua-based Build Tool

ZeroBrane Studio

A lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, remote debugger, and code analyzer

LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution

LAR stands for Lua ARchive, and consist of a module and a file format that empowers a lua script to load lua modules from within a packaged, compressed file

LuaZip is a lightweight Lua extension library used to read files stored inside zip files. The API is very similar to the standard Lua I/O library API

LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library

lua-path

File system path manipulation library

Date & Time module for Lua 5.1/5.2

UniLua

A pure c# implementation of Lua 5.2 focus on compatibility with Unity

Luerl

An experimental implementation of Lua 5.2 written solely in pure Erlang

MoonScript is a dynamic scripting language that compiles into Lua

lua.js

An ECMAscript framework to compile and run Lua code, allowing Lua to run in a browser or in Flash

lua.vm.js

The Lua VM, on the Web

A lightweight Lua VM for the browser

lua-alchemy

Port of the Lua programming language for ActionScript using Alchemy

A Lua implementation for the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).NeoLua is implemented in C# and uses the Dynamic Language Runtime. It therefore integrates very well with the .net framework

A pure-lua implementation of the Markdown text-to-html markup system

LuaDoc is a documentation generator tool for Lua source code

Xavante is a Lua HTTP 1.1 Web server that uses a modular architecture based on URI mapped handlers

Tarantool

Tarantool is an efficient NoSQL database and a Lua application server

LuaDBI is a database interface library for Lua. It is designed to provide a RDBMS agnostic API for handling database operations

LuaLDAP is a simple interface from Lua to an LDAP client, in fact it is a bind to OpenLDAP or to ADSI

ODBC Library for Lua. Also provide LuaSQL compatible module

LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS

a Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2 wrapper for the SQLite3 library

A simple libsqlite3 binding for lua5.0-5.2 that provides 3 functions only and is still fully functional: local db = lsqlite.open(database) results, err = db:exec(statments) db:close()

CGILua is a tool for creating dynamic Web pages and manipulating input data from Web forms

Kepler is a community of software developers building open software to help make Lua a viable option for development of web applications

Orbit is an MVC web framework for Lua

WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server from Lua web applications

Tir

Tir is an experimental web framework for the Mongrel2 webserver and Lua programming language

Lapis

A web framework for Lua and OpenResty written in MoonScript

aLiLua

A epoll/kqueue based web server, inculded lua/coevent support (support Linux/MacOS/BSD platform)

Bamboo

Bamboo is the web framework of Lua based on Mongrel2, ZeroMQ and NoSQL database

MOOCHINE

A (very) simple and lightweight web framework based on ngx-openresty

Sputnik is a software application that powers a dynamic website

lua-imap4

Simple IMAP4 protocol wrapper for Lua

lua-pop3

POP3 client library for Lua

sendmail

Simple wrapper around luasoket smtp.send

Lua binding for

lua-llthreads

Low-Level threads(pthreads or WIN32 threads) for Lua

lua-llthreads2

Enhancement version of lua-llthreads rewritten without code generator

LuaLanes

lightweight, native, lazy evaluating multithreading library for Lua 5.1 and 5.2

Copas is a dispatcher based on coroutines that can be used by TCP/IP servers

lua-zmq

Lua bindings to ZeroMQ 2

Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua

This is a binding of libevent to Lua. It will serve as a drop-in replacement for copas, and eventually support more features (async DNS, HTTP, RPC...)

LuaSec

LuaSec is a binding for OpenSSL library to provide TLS/SSL communication

LuaSocket is a Lua extension library that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet

LuaNode

LuaNode allows to write performant net servers or clients, using an asynchronous model of computing (the Reactor pattern). You might have seen this model implemented in event processing frameworks like Node.js, EventMachine or Twisted. In fact, LuaNode is heavily based on Node.js, because I wanted to be able to do what Node.js does, but using Lua instead of JavaScript

lzmq

A Lua wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library. Supports ZeroMQ version above 3.2.0

Ngx_lua

Embed the power of Lua into Nginx

Luvit

Luvit is an attempt to do something crazy by taking node.js' awesome architecture and dependencies and seeing how it fits in the Lua language

Turbo provides you with all the stuff you need to develop fast web apps, web API's and networking applications

AesFileEncrypt

A simple file encryption library

MD5 offers basic cryptographic facilities for Lua 5.1: a hash (digest) function, a pair crypt/decrypt based on MD5 and CFB, and a pair crypt/decrypt based on DES with 56-bit keys

LCrypt provides everything needed to implement a basic ssh client or server including symmetric ciphers, hashes, microtime, random strings, big integers, and zlib compression. An example RSA implementation is included

LuaCrypto provides a Lua frontend to the OpenSSL cryptographic library

wxLua is a Lua scripting language wrapper around the wxWidgets cross-platform C++ GUI library

IUP is a multi-platform toolkit for building graphical user interfaces

Lqt

lqt is a Lua binding to the Qt framework. It is an automated binding generated from the Qt headers, and covers almost all classes and methods from supported Qt modules

LuaGnome provides a fairly complete binding to Gnome Libraries Lua, including glib 2.x, gdk, gtk 2.x, and a list of supporting libraries

Skynet

A lightweight online game framework

Scut

Scut is a free, open source, stable game server framework, which support C#/Python/Lua script, and support Unity3d, Cocos2dx, FlashAir client access

LoveDOS

A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua. LoveDOS provides an API based on a subset of the LÖVE API

PacPac

This is Pac-Man from a parallel universe

aroma

Aroma is game creation framework/platform that targets Chrome's Native Client. It lets you create games that can be distributed through the Chrome Web Store

LuaLogging provides a simple API to use logging features in Lua. Its design was based on log4j. LuaLogging currently supports, through the use of appenders, console, file, email, socket and sql outputs

lsyslog is a Lua module that wraps the syslog(3) C API. It has been tested with Lua 5.2 on Linux

Lua-log

Asynchronous logging library for Lua 5.1/5.2

Busted

Elegant Lua unit testing

Lualint

lualint performs luac-based static analysis of global variable usage in Lua source code

RemDebug is a remote debugger for Lua 5.0 and 5.1. It lets you control the execution of another Lua program remotely, setting breakpoints and inspecting the current state of the program. RemDebug can also debug CGILua scripts

LuaProfiler is a time profiler designed to help finding bottlenecks on your Lua program

The aim of this project is to offer a framework for numerical computing which combines the ease of use of scripting languages (Matlab, R, ...) with the high performance of compiled languages (C/C++, Fortran, ...)

Lua Fun

Lua Fun is a high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT tracing just-in-time compiler

LPeg is a new pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs)

A C FFI for Lua

The FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code

LuaFFI

Standalone FFI library for calling C functions from lua. Compatible with the LuaJIT FFI interface

NLua

NLua is the bind between Lua world and the .NET world

LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language. Lua is a powerful, dynamic and light-weight programming language. It may be embedded or used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language

Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language

JIT/Static compiler for Lua using LLVM on the backend

lua-pdh

Lua binding to Microsoft Performance Data Helper (PDH) library

Coxpcall encapsulates the protected calls with a coroutine based loop, so errors can be dealed without the usual pcall/xpcall issues with coroutines

Penlight

Penlight brings together a set of generally useful pure Lua modules, focussing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management. Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries

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