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awesome-lua

A curated list of awesome Lua frameworks, libraries and software.
https://github.com/forhappy/awesome-lua

  • LuaDist - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.
  • LAR - 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 - 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 - LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library.
  • lua-path - File system path manipulation library.
  • LuaDate - 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 - 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.
  • Moonshine - A lightweight Lua VM for the browser.
  • lua-alchemy - Port of the Lua programming language for ActionScript using Alchemy.
  • NeoLua - 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.
  • Markdown - A pure-lua implementation of the Markdown text-to-html markup system.
  • LuaDoc - LuaDoc is a documentation generator tool for Lua source code.
  • Xavante - 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 - LuaDBI is a database interface library for Lua. It is designed to provide a RDBMS agnostic API for handling database operations.
  • LuaLDAP - LuaLDAP is a simple interface from Lua to an LDAP client, in fact it is a bind to OpenLDAP or to ADSI.
  • LuaODBC - ODBC Library for Lua. Also provide LuaSQL compatible module.
  • LuaSQL - LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS.
  • LuaSQLite3 - a Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2 wrapper for the SQLite3 library.
  • Lsqlite - 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 - CGILua is a tool for creating dynamic Web pages and manipulating input data from Web forms.
  • Kepler Project - Kepler is a community of software developers building open software to help make Lua a viable option for development of web applications.
  • Orbit - Orbit is an MVC web framework for Lua.
  • WSAPI - 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 - 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
  • Luatidy - Lua binding for [HTMLtidy](http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)
  • lua-llthreads - Low-Level threads(pthreads or WIN32 threads) for Lua.
  • lua-llthreads2 - Enhancement version of lua-llthreads rewritten without `LuaNativeObjects` code generator
  • LuaLanes - lightweight, native, lazy evaluating multithreading library for Lua 5.1 and 5.2
  • Copas - Copas is a dispatcher based on coroutines that can be used by TCP/IP servers.
  • lua-zmq - Lua bindings to ZeroMQ 2
  • Luakit - Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
  • LuaEvent - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - LuaCrypto provides a Lua frontend to the OpenSSL cryptographic library.
  • wxLua - wxLua is a Lua scripting language wrapper around the wxWidgets cross-platform C++ GUI library.
  • IUP - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - LuaProfiler is a time profiler designed to help finding bottlenecks on your Lua program.
  • SciLua - 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 - LPeg is a new pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs).
  • Alien - A C FFI for Lua
  • FFI Library - 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 - 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 - Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language.
  • LLVM-Lua - JIT/Static compiler for Lua using LLVM on the backend.
  • lua-pdh - Lua binding to Microsoft Performance Data Helper (PDH) library.
  • Coxpcall - 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.
  • LuaSearch - Navigate Lua Module Documentation
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