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lux – package manager for Lua

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

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Roguelike Games

Shadow of the Wyrm – single player, traditional roguelike

December 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Shadow of the Wyrm is a single player, traditional roguelike. You play a shipwrecked adventurer, washed up on the shore of an island far from home.

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Documentation

meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting. It’s written in Lua.

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Text Editor

Pragtical – practical and pragmatic code editor

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Pragtical is a cross-platform code editor with a modern graphical interface, developed using C and Lua(JIT), powered by SDL

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Selection of utilities

Sysdig – dig deeper

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms Security, System Software

Sysdig is a universal system visibility tool with native support for containers.

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EmptyEpsilon – spaceship bridge simulator game

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms Games

EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It’s fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish.

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Algernon – small self-contained pure-Go web server

June 22, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Algernon is a mall self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, SQLite and PostgreSQL support.

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IDE

ZeroBrane Studio – lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support.

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Development Tools

8 Top Free and Open Source Lua Web Frameworks

March 9, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Here’s our recommended web frameworks for Lua captured in a legendary Linuxlinks’ chart. We only feature free and open source software.

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Development Tools

Fullmoon – fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean

March 5, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Fullmoon is a fast and minimalistic web framework based on Redbean — a portable, single-file distributable web server.

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Files

nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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Static Site Generators

4 Best Free and Open Source Lua Static Site Generators

November 17, 2024 Eilidih Parris Roundup, Web Apps

Here are the best Lua static site generators. These tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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Static Site Generator

Sitegen – static site generator

October 25, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Sitegen is a static site generator written in MoonScript and Lua.

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Security

awall – Linux firewall configuration tool

October 12, 2024 Steve Emms Security

awall is a Linux firewall configuration tool, providing various benefits over plain iptables.

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Coding

xmake – cross-platform build utility based on Lua

June 8, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

xmake is a modern build tool that aims to be simple, fast, and offering powerful dependency package integration.

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Application Servers

Hot Free and Open Source Application Servers for Lua

May 23, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup, Web Apps

An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. Here’s our recommended servers for Lua.

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Static Site Generators

Satelito – static site generator

May 19, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Satelito is a static site generator.Satelito uses Markdown (and HTML) for basic content and optionally Lua files for metadata

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Security

BunkerWeb – next-generation Web Application Firewall

April 16, 2024 Steve Emms Security

BunkerWeb is a next-generation and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) which offers easy integration with existing environments.

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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system

April 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

SILE is a typesetting system. Its job is to produce beautiful printed documents.

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Game Tools

Spring – free real-time strategy game

November 14, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Spring has the ambitious aim of creating the best ever real-time strategy, a strategic game that is distinctly not turn-based.

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