Lua: The Little Language That Could

1. koreader

   1 406 20,442 9.8 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

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. lxgui

   2 1 76 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).

4. fengari

   3 25 1,865 4.4 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)

5. clp

   4 8 99 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!

6. homeautomation-plc

   5 1 7 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

7. MicroPyScript

   6 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/

8. Prosody IM

   7 23 630 9.7 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.

9. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

10. Pytorch

    8 387 88,992 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.

11. pico8lib

    9 1 38 7.5 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

12. KataScript

    10 16 99 4.5 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".

13. moonscript

    11 39 3,293 4.2 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?

14. Minetest

    12 126 11,352 9.9 C++

    Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

    

15. lcpp

    13 2 129 10.0 C

    A Lua C PreProcessor

    

    there is lcpp

16. lua-language-server

    14 83 3,665 9.5 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.

17. CParser

    15 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.

18. fengari-phaser-tutorial-02

    16 1 4 10.0 HTML

    

19. wireshark-lua

    17 2 200 8.4 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

20. tl

    18 62 2,343 9.5 Lua

    The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua

    

    Check out Teal

21. SaaSHub

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