Top 7 Lua OSX Projects

dotfiles

6 2,701 8.7 Lua

vim, zsh, git, homebrew, neovim - my whole world (by nicknisi)
picolove

7 722 8.5 Lua

PICO-8 Reimplementation in Love2D. Chat: https://discord.gg/jGEMUse6RM

Project mention: Pico 8 in other software | /r/pico8 | 2023-12-06

Picolove, written in lua for love2d: a very good starting point, especially if the engine you're using has support for lua. Has been used for "expanded" versions of games, because it's very easy to modify the resolution of the display and things like that. Works for simpler carts like Celeste, but is not memory accurate!

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
MIDI2LR

14 669 8.6 Lua

An application and plugin to remotely control Lightroom with a MIDI controller
VimMode.spoon

14 657 0.0 Lua

Adds vim keybindings to all OS X inputs
miro-windows-manager

3 368 10.0 Lua

Intuitive and clever mechanism for moving windows using only arrows, even resizing windows by thirds or quarters! For OSX

Project mention: Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-20

For basic window tiling, I stumbled across Hammerspoon and the MiroWindowsManager spoon.
https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager
https://www.hammerspoon.org/

PaperWM.spoon

5 189 6.9 Lua

Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS

Project mention: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-30

I use the PaperWM spoon, a port of the Gnome thing.
It does not make sense to me to use a "normal" tilling vm that automatically messes up with window side without asking me, I just need the windows to be automatically put side by side.
[1] https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon

hammerspoon

3 16 4.5 Lua

A hammerspoon config with a bunch of custom spoons (sleep timer, resolution changer, paywall buster, safari hotkey utilities, window management with undo, etc). (by nonissue)
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).