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LuaBinaries is a distribution of the Lua libraries and executables compiled for several platforms.
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[OFFICIAL] tinyfiledialogs C C++ v3.21.3
inputbox password WIN OSX GTK QT Console VCPKG C# Lua R Fortran Pascal
one C/C++ file & header ==> 8 functions: - beep - tray notify popup - message & question - input & password - save file - open file(s) - select folder - color picker complements OpenGL Vulkan GLFW GLUT GLUI VTK SFML TGUI SDL Ogre Unity3d ION OpenCV CeGui MathGL GLM CPW GLOW Open3D ImGui MyGui GLT NGL STB Nuklear Fenster MicroUi & head-less programs NO INIT NO MAIN LOOP NO LINKING NO INCLUDE win (XP to 11) ASCII MBCS UTF-8 UTF-16 (wchar_t) - native dialogs osx/unix ASCII UTF-8 - applescript kdialog zenity shanty … ° SSH console / X forwarding / waypipe Wayland ° the dialogs can be forced into console mode ° curses dialogs via Dialog.exe/Dialog (disabled by default) C89/C23 & C++98/C++23 compliant VisualStudio MinGW GCC Clang TinyCC IntelCC OWCC BCC SunCC on Windows Mac Linux Bsd Solaris Minix Raspbian Flatpak Haiku bindings: VCPKG C# R Lua Rust Haskell Java AllegroBasic Fortran Pascal D JavaScript Kotlin click tab 'Files' for prototypes -
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AstroNvim Community Repository
A community repository of common plugin specifications
AstroNvim's community repository contains plugin configuration specifications — a collection of plugins contributed by the community for AstroNvim, a NeoVim configuration. These specifications help manage the variety of plugins used in AstroNvim. To integrate the community plugins, add the provided configurations to your plugins setup preferably before you import your own plugins to guarantee all AstroCommunity changes are loaded before your own overrides. If you are using the AstroNvim Template This can be done in your lua/community.lua file. -
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snacks.nvim
A collection of QoL plugins for Neovim
snacks.nvim is a playful and minimal plugin for Neovim that shows little "snack" animations or messages in the command line during idle moments. It adds charm and personality to the editor without being intrusive, appealing to users who enjoy aesthetic feedback in their development environment. snacks.nvim is written in Lua and intended as a lighthearted UX enhancement. -
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MINI.NVIM
Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim
Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.8 and higher) experience with minimal effort. They all share same configuration approaches and general design principles. Think about this project as "Swiss Army knife" among Neovim plugins: it has many different independent tools (modules) suitable for most common tasks. Each module can be used separately without any startup and usage overhead. -
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mason-lspconfig.nvim
Extension to mason.nvim that makes it easier to use lspconfig
mason-lspconfig.nvim is a companion plugin for the Mason Neovim ecosystem that bridges Mason with nvim-lspconfig. It provides seamless configuration and automatic setup of language servers installed through Mason, making it easier to manage LSPs in a declarative and user-friendly way. -
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quvi is a command line tool for parsing Adobe Flash media stream URLs. libquvi is a cross-platform library for parsing media stream URLs with C API.
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Rime ICE
rime-ice is a highly optimized schema for the RIME input method
rime-ice is a highly optimized schema for the RIME (中州韻) input method engine, offering a clean, intelligent, and efficient Chinese input experience. Built with modular configuration files and designed for performance, rime-ice provides powerful input suggestions, simplified vocabulary, and flexible customization, catering to users who want a streamlined and practical Chinese typing setup. -
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json.lua
A lightweight JSON library for Lua
json.lua is a lightweight JSON library for Lua that provides straightforward encoding and decoding without requiring a large external package. It is designed to be dropped into an existing project as a single Lua file, then required directly from application code. The library exposes a simple API for turning Lua values into JSON strings and parsing JSON strings back into Lua values. Its small size makes it practical for games, plugins, scripts, embedded Lua environments, and projects where dependency weight matters. It is implemented in pure Lua and is known for being fast among pure Lua JSON options while still offering useful error messages. Overall, it is a convenient choice when a Lua project needs dependable JSON support with minimal setup. -
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nvim-config
A modern Neovim configuration with full battery
nvim-config is a personal, well-documented Neovim configuration maintained by jdhao, optimized for productivity and modern plugin ecosystems. It includes setups for language servers, autocompletion, syntax highlighting, fuzzy finding, and aesthetics. This configuration is a great starting point or reference for users setting up a performant and feature-rich Neovim environment. -
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nvim-lspconfig
Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP
nvim-lspconfig is a plugin for Neovim that simplifies the configuration and setup of built-in Language Server Protocol (LSP) support. It provides predefined configurations for many popular language servers, helping users quickly integrate features like code completion, diagnostics, go-to-definition, and refactoring into their Neovim setup. It is actively maintained and widely adopted by the Neovim community. -
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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. -
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CDN Up and Running
CDN Up and Running - Building a CDN from Scratch to Learn about CDN
CDN Up and Running is an educational project that demonstrates how content delivery networks work by guiding users through building one from scratch using real-world tools and infrastructure components. The repository combines theoretical explanations with hands-on implementation, allowing developers to understand both the concepts and practical challenges of CDN design. It starts with a simple backend service and progressively evolves into a distributed, multi-node system capable of handling caching, routing, and traffic distribution. The project uses technologies such as Nginx, Lua, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana to simulate realistic CDN environments and monitoring systems. It also explores performance considerations, including latency simulation, load balancing, and scalability. By integrating observability tools, it enables users to analyze system behavior and performance metrics. -
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Knit
Lightweight game framework for Roblox
Lightweight game framework for Roblox. A lightweight framework that simplifies communication between core parts of your Roblox experience and seamlessly bridges the gap between the server and the client. Services and controllers are the core of Knit. These objects provide a foundation for Roblox experiences. By orienting core game logic around services and controllers, developers will inherit cleaner organization across codebases and easier maintainability. Services and controllers are easy to create, and provide a built-in networking layer. Knit automatically provides networking between the client and services. Since Knit handles the networking infrastructure, developers are not left with the burden of manually creating RemoteEvent and RemoteFunction objects throughout the hierarchy. Each service has the ability to expose specific endpoints to the client through declarative code. -
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indent-blankline.nvim
Indent guides for Neovim
indent-blankline.nvim is a Neovim plugin that adds vertical indentation guides to visually indicate code structure. It supports modern syntax parsing through Treesitter and provides extensive configuration options for appearance, scope highlighting, and context awareness. This plugin is essential for users who want cleaner and more structured code visuals. -
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refactoring.nvim
The Refactoring library based off the Refactoring book
refactoring.nvim is a Neovim plugin developed to bring powerful automated code refactoring capabilities to one of the most popular text editors among programmers, giving developers a suite of refactoring operations that streamline repetitive restructuring tasks inside the editor. Built around an intuitive set of commands and a Lua API, the plugin allows users to extract and inline variables or functions, pull blocks of code into new files, and modify code structure without leaving the comfort of Neovim’s modal interface. It integrates with built-in Neovim selection modes and can work with third-party tools like Telescope to present refactoring options quickly, enabling rapid transformation of code patterns. Beyond pure refactor actions, the plugin includes debugging helpers that insert print statements or remove them, aiding developers in tracing program flow and inspecting variable states as part of iterative development. -
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lua_alt_getopt is a module for Lua programming language for parsing command line arguments. Goals: compatibility to POSIX "Utility Syntax Guidelines" (guidelines 3-13), GNU getopt_long(3) extentions.
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A cross-platform multimedia library aimed at supporting a wide range of programming languages. It exposes a set of C APIs used to generate high-level object-oriented bindings for supported languages at compile-time.
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liblzg is a minimal implementation of an LZ77 class compression library. The main characteristic of the library is that the decoding routine is very simple, fast and requires no memory.
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lxgui
A Lua and XML Graphical User Interface
Note: this project has been migrated to github: https://github.com/cschreib/lxgui lxgui is an open source, portable, and data driven GUI. It is fully extensible, and supports caching through render targets. It is meant to be used by real time applications (such as games). The GUI can be created either by C++ code, or by using the integrated "add-on" system, where the GUI is parsed from XML and Lua files. It relies on keyboard and mouse input (support for other controllers is not planned). Front ends are provided for OpenGL (for graphics), and OIS and SFML (for input). An SFML graphics front end is in project. Documentation : http://lxgui.sourceforge.net/docs -
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FSAL
Full Screen Assistant for LÖVE
FSAL is "Full Screen Assistant for LÖVE". For all game creators with LÖVE. FSAL provides a function to easily handle full screen mode when creating games with the LÖVE framework. (LÖVE: https://love2d.org/) With FSAL you can easily implement full screen mode in your own games. You will also be able to easily implement the ability to switch between full screen mode and window mode. Furthermore, FSAL makes it very easy to create games that support freely resizable windows. It's beautiful! Try this!!! -
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30log
30 lines library for object orientation in Lua
30log, in extenso 30 Lines Of Goodness is a minified framework for object orientation in Lua. It provides named and unnamed classes, single inheritance, metamethods and basic support for mixins. In 30 lines. -
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Engine de jogos C++,para jogos 2D e 3D. Bibliotecas Utilizadas: SDL, SDL_Image, SDL_Mixer, SDL_ttf, FreeType, LUA, FTGL, OpenGL
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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.
