SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives Learn more →
Top 11 Lua C Projects
-
> Does anyone know of anything better than Make?
Xmake https://xmake.io/ for C and C++ (I haven't use that for anything serious yet) and Buck 2 https://buck2.build/ if you need a really complex build system.
-
SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
-
While the argument of "I deal with X11-based WMs because it's fine when I don't care about security at all" may be valid in very narrow cases (such as air-gapped systems), the argument more generally is pretty weak.
Its not surpising that x11 based WMs, such as the almighty [awesomeWM](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome), have more features implemented than, for instance, [jay](https://github.com/mahkoh/jay) due to the enormous time it has had to develop (though I am _very_ excited to see `jay` develop more fully, and expect it to be well used by the more tech-savy devs).
However, some WMs in the Wayland space are doing quite well on that front. I recently had some substantial problems arise in my system which (surprisingly to me, but perhaps some are getting used to this) would have been prevented by using a memory safety language for my WM, so I have made the switch to (for better or worse) only ever consider Wayland+Rust WMs. In this space, [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) is actually quite good, and to the point - it is developing correctly _and very quickly_. So, any issues on some WM not implementing some desired feature are quickly disappearing.
IIRC, all the major 'gateway' linux distros, such as Ubuntu or Fedora, are all on Wayland by default now - so I don't imagine x11 will stay relevant much longer.
-
nelua-lang
Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
-
Project mention: Luakit: A fast, extensible, and customizable web browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-03
As a Lua user and a big fan of Qute et al browsers, I really want to like Luakit, but they've had a video bug[1] (they don't work at all) for a long time, and basically just ignore the issue as "not our bug" because it's apparently a webkit bug.
[1]: https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues/882
-
cimgui
c-api for imgui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) Look at: https://github.com/cimgui for other widgets
-
gluon
a modular framework for creating OpenWrt-based firmwares for wireless mesh nodes (by freifunk-gluon)
-
clangd_extensions.nvim
Clangd's off-spec features for neovim's LSP client. Use https://sr.ht/~p00f/clangd_extensions.nvim instead
-
-
-
ouroboros.nvim
Allows quickly switching between header and implementation files for C/C++ in Neovim.
-
If you're new to the 12 in 24 series, I'm learning and building projects with a new programming language every month - this month, it's the Lua scripting language. You can find source code for the projects I build in the official GitHub repository (check it out, this week's folder contains code for both this and two other bonus projects!).
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Lua C discussion
Lua C related posts
-
mpv a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
-
Luakit: A fast, extensible, and customizable web browser
-
Correcting iBus/X-Windows compose key conflicts
-
What's New in Neovim 0.10
-
Ravi is a dialect of Lua, with JIT and AOT compilers
-
Size of clients in the Master area
-
Alternative for running tests
-
A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 21 Jan 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source C projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | xmake | 10,544 |
| 2 | awesome | 6,463 |
| 3 | nelua-lang | 2,125 |
| 4 | luakit | 2,118 |
| 5 | cimgui | 1,562 |
| 6 | gluon | 560 |
| 7 | clangd_extensions.nvim | 510 |
| 8 | neovim-tasks | 110 |
| 9 | nelua-decl | 49 |
| 10 | ouroboros.nvim | 46 |
| 11 | 12in2024 | 1 |
Sponsored
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com