Lua Ecosystem

Lua is a programming language written in C that emphasizes performance. It has automatic memory management and is often used to extend software written in other languages.

Created by

Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

Released

1993

Community Repos

14,692

Total GitHub Stars

7,991

Core Projects

lua

8,455

A copy of the Lua development repository, as seen by the Lua team

luac

Experiments with the lua bytecode format that grew to be the luac command line tool

Popular Projects

gopher-lua

GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go

15 Feb 2015 6,224

lua-language-server

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

07 Sep 2018 3,285

xLua

xLua is a lua programming solution for C# ( Unity,

07 Dec 2016 9,346

luau

A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua

14 Sep 2018 3,878

fengari

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

01 Feb 2017 1,801

nelua-lang

Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code

28 Oct 2017 2,014

luarocks

LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language

20 Mar 2010 3,250

hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

08 Oct 2014 11,949

neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

31 Jan 2014 76,163

cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe

18 Nov 2010 18,161

nodemcu-firmware

Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32

20 Nov 2014 7,646

luvit

Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce

10 Sep 2011 3,803

NLua

Bridge between Lua and the

06 Mar 2013 2,029

luban

luban是一个强大、易用、优雅、稳定的游戏配置解决方案。luban is a powerful, easy-to-use, elegant and stable game configuration solution

21 Oct 2020 3,332

lux

The Lux Programming Language

04 May 2015 1,680

rlua

High level Lua bindings to Rust

21 May 2017 1,687

moonscript

A language that compiles to Lua

23 May 2011 3,186

luv

Bare libuv bindings for lua

08 Oct 2012 812

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Extra utilities for working with MLua and Rust

18 Sep 2024 1

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Use completefunc for snippets in neovim

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