Open Source Lua Frameworks

IUP is a portable toolkit for building graphical user interfaces. It offers a configuration API in three basic languages: C, Lua and LED. IUP purpose is to allow a program to be executed in different systems without any modification.

WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows the display of highly customizable graphics on World of Warcraft's user interface to indicate buffs, debuffs, and other relevant information. This addon was created to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras but has since introduced more functionalities while remaining efficient and easy to use. An intuitive and powerful configuration interface. Custom textures including all textures from Power Auras and Blizzard's spell alerts. Progress bars and textures that show the exact duration of auras. Displays based on auras, health, power (mana, rage, soul shards, holy power, etc.), cooldowns, combat events, runes, totems, items, and many other triggers. Preset and user-defined animations. Custom side-effects such as chat announcements or sounds. Grouping, which allows multiple displays to be positioned and configured at the same time. CPU optimizations such as conditional loading/unloading of displays, modularity, etc.

wxLua is a Lua scripting language wrapper for the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI library. It consists of executables for editing, running, and debugging wxLua scripts, a library for extending C++ programs with a fast, small, fully embeddable scripting language, and a variety of sample programs. With wxLua you can quickly write full-featured programs with graphics, networking, printing, etc. for MS Windows, Linux, and OSX.

CD (Canvas Draw) is a platform-independent graphics library. It is implemented in several platforms using native graphics libraries: Windows (GDI) and X-Windows (XLIB). The canvas is an abstract surface that can be a window, an image or a metafile.

Lapis is a framework for building web applications in Lua (or MoonScript) that primarily targets OpenResty, a high-performance web platform that runs on a customized version of Nginx. Lapis can also be used in other server environments, being compatible with any modern version of Lua. With OpenResty, Lua is run directly inside of the Nginx worker using LuaJIT, giving you the smallest barrier between the webserver and your code. Have a look at Web Framework Benchmarks just to see how OpenResty stacks up against other platforms. Utilizing the power of Lua coroutines, you can write clean code that looks synchronous but can achieve high throughput by automatically running asynchronously without blocking. Networking operations like database queries and HTTP requests will automatically yield to allow for handling concurrent requests, all without all that callback spaghetti seen in other asynchronous platforms.

Cross-platform python dynamic bindings of GObject-based libraries for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

IM is a toolkit for Digital Imaging. IM is based on 4 concepts: Image Representation, Storage, Processing and Capture. The main goal of the library is to provide a simple API and abstraction of images for scientific applications.

A framework for interacting with tests within NeoVim. For any runner without an adapter you can use neotest-vim-test which supports any runner that vim-test supports. The vim-test adapter does not support some of the more advanced features such as error locations or per-test output. If you're using the vim-test adapter then install vim-test too.

LuaRadio is a lightweight, embeddable flow graph signal processing framework for software-defined radio. It provides a suite of source, sink, and processing blocks, with a simple API for defining flow graphs, running flow graphs, creating blocks, and creating data types. LuaRadio is built on LuaJIT, has a small binary footprint of under 750 KB (including LuaJIT), has no external hard dependencies, and is MIT-licensed. LuaRadio can be used to rapidly prototype software radios, modulation/demodulation utilities, and signal processing experiments. It can also be embedded into existing radio applications to serve as a user-scriptable engine for signal processing. LuaRadio blocks are written in pure Lua, but can use LuaJIT's FFI to wrap external libraries, like VOLK, liquid-dsp, and others, for computational acceleration, sophisticated processing, and interfacing with SDR hardware.

Luvit implements the same APIs as Node.js, but in Lua. This helps teams migrate without having to learn a new way of programming. Choose your async model; we don’t mind; we encourage experimentation. If you don’t like callbacks and event emitters, use coroutines and write blocking-style code without actually blocking your event loop. The various projects in the luvit ecosystem can be mixed and matched to build the ideal runtime for your application. The luvit CLI tool can be used as a scripting platform just like node. This can be used to run lua scripts as standalone servers, clients, or other tools.

LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua.

hiperGL - Is a 2D OpenGL hardware accelerated blitter, graphic loader, frame manager, a DIV like sprite system, and more utilities for creating video games. It works under SDL. It's portable, and easy to use.

The main purpose of the Moonlight Engine is to be a general 2D game engine geared towards tile-based games, and RPGs specifically. Support for online games is also planned.

MicroCity is a framework for spatial analysis and simulation. It is lightweight, fast, portable, extendable and user friendly. Users can easily operate large GIS and Grid data and perform Spatial, Fractal, Network analysis and simulation.

Develop your app in Lua language and export it to most popular platforms, from desktop PC and Mac to mobile (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) and even Web. While Gideros is mainly dedicated to game development, it is also a good fit for professional apps. Code once, run everywhere! Intro documentation: http://docs.giderosmobile.com/ Reference documentation: http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/ Forum: http://giderosmobile.com/forum Full source code: https://github.com/gideros/gideros

mod_pLua is a module for the Apache httpd web server, that enables the use of preprocessed (html-embedded) Lua scripts using a PHP-like syntax as well as CGI-style interfacing, but at a much faster pace. For a more detailed description, see the wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/modplua/wiki/

A mature cross-platform C++ library for use as a default application framework. Features include: * Threading & synchronization * Socket programming: SSL, NanoMsg & ZMQ * File I/O utilities: zlib, ini, yaml * Native Database access: MySQL, SQLite, BerkleyDB, Postgre, REDIS and ODBC * Built-in mini XML parser; optional EXPAT, LIBXML and MSXML support * Network protocol stack: HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, SOAP, XMLRPC * Scripting languages: Perl, Python, JavaScript, VBScript, Java, Lua, TCL, Squirrel * Cloud Computing: AWS * Encryption: OpenSSL * Platforms: Linux/Posix, Windows, Arduino * Over 500+ highly reusable classes. 4000+ fully documented functions. Follow the 'Wiki' link above to explore everything about the framework.

The Gamebook Engine is the first free, cross-platform engine for writing gamebooks, such as the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, or the "Lone Wolf" series. TGE can interpret scripts that use the "Hyena" gamebook format.

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This is a game engine that helps game developer to produce game easier.It is writen in C++ and all of the functions are fixed into classes as the engine is designed in the method of Object-Oriented.

Layered and skinned G.U.I. , alpha blending, plugins system, embedded script engine, signal & slot, xml & xslt, unicode string

A World of Warcraft API emulator, including WoW UI XML file parser, implemented wholly in Lua, for faster offline development and to gain debugging capabilities. Among other things, it supports logging in multiple, separate users that can communicate.

Create Web Appliaction by XML Script for JAVA.

Scrupp is a cross-platform 2D engine which uses SDL and OpenGL for visualization. It is controlled by external Lua scripts. The core supports various image, sound, music and font formats. The hard work is done by plugins written in Lua.

RMX is a modular automation system supporting system events and human interface events.