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AppSignal
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cdn-up-and-running
CDN Up and Running - Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN, Nginx, Lua, Prometheus, Grafana, Load balancing, and Containers.
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Penlight
A set of pure Lua libraries focusing 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.
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nelua-lang
Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.
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SaaSHub
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ltest
Discontinued LTest is a unit testing framework for Lua. It is designed to be simple and easy to use. It is also designed to be used in a variety of environments, including embedded systems.
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NOTE:
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Hence, a higher number means a better luakit alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-09-21.
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Ask HN: Any real "programmable web browser"?
Not really 'visual', but https://nyxt-browser.com maybe?
Otherwise the less extreme https://luakit.github.io / https://github.com/luakit/luakit comes to mind. It's not dead yet.
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Luakit: A fast, extensible, and customizable web browser
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
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Have you ever achieved a keyboard only desktop environment without sacrifices?
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luakit/luakit is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of luakit is Lua.
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