Lua: The Little Language That Could

• koreader

  390 15,187 9.7 Lua

  An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

  

Honestly there's so much more stuff that I listed only what is good for me, but there's a ton more available, the wiki is probably the best place to have an overview of features

• lxgui

  1 72 5.7 C++

  Portable, real time, modular and data-driven GUI C++ library.

I discovered Lua thanks to World of Warcraft UI customisation add-ons. I later went on to build a UI toolkit with the same API, and using Lua as scripting language (lxgui).

• WorkOS

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  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.

  

• fengari

  24 1,765 0.0 JavaScript

  🌙 φεγγάρι - The Lua VM written in JS ES6 for Node and the browser

  

it should be possible, the article mentions https://fengari.io/ (a Lua VM written in JavaScript)

• clp

  8 94 4.9 Lua

  writes input files to stdout with syntax highlighting (by jpe90)

I used luajit to write an alternative to bat because it was annoyingly slow for large files. It ended up being like 15 times faster. Such a cool language!

• homeautomation-plc

  1 6 6.8 C++

  A batteries included PLC runtime for Embedded Linux

  

FYR: https://github.com/honeytreelabs/homeautomation-plc/ if you give it a star, I would really appreciate this

• MicroPyScript

  33 57 10.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued MicroPyScript: A test harness for multiple runtimes in PyScript

  

same was done for other languages too, like Python https://pyscript.net/

• Prosody IM

  23 587 9.4 Lua

  IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can.

lua on its own right can be fun too! If you are looking for a project to contribute to, there's for instance the Prosody XMPP server that's written in it, and contributes to the betterment of internet by promoting federated protocols.

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• Pytorch

  336 77,783 10.0 Python

  Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

  

The original Torch library (the predecessor to PyTorch) was a Lua library. A lot of early 2010s NN research was done in Lua.

• pico8lib

  1 32 7.4 Lua

  Library of useful functions and tables for Lua programming for the PICO-8 fantasy console

I have a small library of functions for pico8 games, which uses lua: https://github.com/sparr/pico8lib

• KataScript

  16 95 8.0 C++

  A simple scripting language

for the editor, I made the vscode extension, it was surprisingly easy since my script language looks a lot like c++/javascript/etc. Maintaining both is a bit annoying but I think it's worth it to have good enough looking syntax highlighting in vscode. https://github.com/brwhale/KataScript/blob/main/VSCodeExtension/katascriptlang/syntaxes/katascript.tmLanguage.json and https://github.com/brwhale/KataScript/blob/main/VSCodeExtension/katascriptlang/language-configuration.json are all it took, but the big missing feature is stuff like "red underline when you forget a semicolon".

• moonscript

  35 3,118 4.4 Lua

  :crescent_moon: A language that compiles to Lua

RE: the cost of switching at this point, what about languages that compile to Lua? Like https://moonscript.org/. That would let you keep the legacy code, no?

• Minetest

  121 10,046 9.8 C++

  Minetest is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

  

• lcpp

  2 128 10.0 C

  A Lua C PreProcessor

there is lcpp

• lua-language-server

  79 2,988 9.4 Lua

  A language server that offers Lua language support - programmed in Lua

  

There's lua-language-server which works with types defined in definition files and/or annotations in comments.

• CParser

  1 203 10.0 Lua

  Discontinued A compact C preprocessor and declaration parser written in pure Lua (by facebookresearch)

  

There's also one from Facebook that I've used in the past.

• fengari-phaser-tutorial-02

  1 3 10.0 HTML

• wireshark-lua

  2 166 9.0 Lua

  Source generated cross platform Wireshark dissectors

I work at a hedge fund and one of the coolest things are Lua Wireshark dissectors for almost every financial protocol: https://github.com/Open-Markets-Initiative/wireshark-lua

• tl

  54 1,935 7.7 Lua

  The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

  

Check out Teal

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