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    IUP
    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.
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    Downloads: 292 This Week
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    WeakAuras

    WeakAuras

    World of Warcraft addon that provides a powerful framework

    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.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Turbo

    Turbo

    Turbo is a framework built for LuaJIT 2

    Turbo.lua is a framework built for LuaJIT 2 to simplify the task of building fast and scalable network applications. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking, no-thread design to deliver excellent performance and minimal footprint to high-load applications while also providing excellent support for embedded uses. The toolkit can be used for HTTP REST APIs, traditional dynamic web pages through templating, open connections like WebSockets, or just as high-level building blocks for native speed network applications. First and foremost the framework is aimed at the HTTP(S) protocol. This means web developers and HTTP API developers are first-class citizens. But the framework contains generic nuts and bolts such as; an I/O loop, IO Stream classes, and customizable TCP (with SSL) server classes giving it value for everyone doing any kind of high-performance network application.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Lor

    Lor

    a fast, minimalist web framework for lua based on OpenResty

    A fast and minimalist web framework based on OpenResty.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Lapis

    Lapis

    A web framework for Lua and OpenResty written in MoonScript

    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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    LuaRadio

    LuaRadio

    A lightweight, embeddable software-defined radio framework

    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.
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    CD
    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.
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    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    IM
    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.
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    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    PyGObject for Windows

    PyGObject for Windows

    All-In-One PyGI/PyGObject for Windows Installer

    Cross-platform python dynamic bindings of GObject-based libraries for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    LuaUnit

    LuaUnit

    LuaUnit is a popular unit-testing framework for Lua

    LuaUnit is a popular unit-testing framework for Lua, with an interface typical of xUnit libraries (Python unittest, Junit, NUnit, ...). It supports several output formats (Text, TAP, JUnit, etc.) that can be used directly or work with continuous integration platforms (Jenkins, Maven, etc.). LuaUnit may be installed as a rock or directly added to your project. For simplicity, LuaUnit is contained into a single file and has no external dependency. LuaUnit may also be used as an assertion library, to validate assertions inside a running program. In addition, it provides a pretty stringifier that converts any type into a nicely formatted string (including complex nested or recursive tables).
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    Luvit

    Luvit

    Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce

    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.
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    LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua.
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    wxLua
    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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    mod_pLua

    mod_pLua

    An Apache module for developing web applications using Lua

    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/
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    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.
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    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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Xenos Engine is an open source scriptable 3d simulation engine. Xenos provides a unified interface to a diverse collection of open source libraries, exposed to an easy to use scripting language.
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    Empact Foundation Class Library

    Cross-platform C++ library for use as a default application framework.

    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.
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    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.
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    LuaLinq

    LuaLinq

    Lightweight Linq-like library for Lua

    Lightweight Linq-like library for Lua. For the latest version of this project, refer to http://code.google.com/p/lualinq/ Sorry for that. The syntax is very similar to LINQ and reminds of SQL, for those who already know those languages. It’s released with a BSD 3 clause license. It uses a very basic subset of Lua, which allows it to be used also in very restrictive embedding scenarios (e.g. videogames). The focus on data instead of processing makes it suitable for all those scripts where querying the hosting application entities is paramount: RPG videogames, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
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    lglicua

    Developer Assistant for PUC-Rio Tecgraf sci/tech toolkits on GNU/Linux

    This project is an assistant for developers wanting to use one of Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and/or 5.4, together with the PUC-Rio Tecgraf scientific/technical toolkit projects, on a range of GNU/Linux distributions. The Tecgraf projects are hosted on SourceForge: "im" (Image Manipulation) <https://sourceforge.net/projects/imtoolkit/> "cd" (Canvas Draw) <https://sourceforge.net/projects/canvasdraw/> "iup" (Toolkit for GUIs) <https://sourceforge.net/projects/iup/> Lua also comes out of PUC-Rio, and is a small, portable, fast, powerful, readable, flexible and free scripting/extension language. See: <https://www.lua.org/about.html>. This Assistant helps with installation (needs sudo), and non-sudo day-to-day project activities such as SVN updates and project patch/edit/build/run. The "hello, world" dialog box Bash/Lua script is two lines: #!/bin/bash ../support/play-lua-tec iup=require("iuplua"); iup.Message("MyApp", "hello, world")
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    !!! Albion 2 has moved to http://albion2.org !!!
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    BoomBot is a developer's framework for writing a bot connecting to the AIM network. It manages the network communication for the bots so that they can be easily written without worrying about AIM itself at all. Bots can be written in Objective-C or Lua.
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    CoPP is an object-oriented framework for developing algorithms for robot path planning. One of of the design goals is to make it easy to make comparisons between various path planning algorithms.
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