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XMPP

Prosody – modern XMPP communication server

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources.

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Textadept – text editor software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Version also available for the terminal.

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Application Servers

Tarantool – fast, scalable, and reliable in-memory computing platform

November 7, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server written in Lua and C.

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Web Browsers

Luakit – fast, extensible, and customizable WebKit-based web browser

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Luakit is a highly configurable browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit.

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Simulation Games

NAEV – game about space exploration, trade and combat

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games

NAEV is a 2D space trading and combat game. It is inspired by Ambrosia Software’s classic game, Escape Velocity.

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Turn Based Strategy Games

HedgeWars – funny and addictive free game

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Hedgewars is a Worms-like turn based strategy game where the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by pesky hedgehogs with awesome weapons.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Zero-K – massive robot armies fighting in an endless conflict

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Zero-K is an exciting real-time strategy game in which massive robot armies fight in an endless conflict.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Widelands – real-time strategy game

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Widelands is an economic and military simulation game aiming for gameplay similar to Settlers II by BlueByte.

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Real-Time Strategy Games

Bos Wars – free futuristic real time strategy game

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Bos Wars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). In a RTS game, the player has to combat his enemies while developing his war economy.

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Video Games

Spring – RTS game engine

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Spring (previously known as TA Spring) is a project to create the best Real-time Strategy (RTS) game engine ever. It has three main goals.

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DoomRL – D**m, the Roguelike

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular first person shooter game Doom.

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Development Tools

Vanilla – OpenResty Lua MVC web framework

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Vanilla is an OpenResty Lua MVC web framework. Vanilla is free and open source software written in Perl and Lua.

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Development Tools

Orbit – MVC web framework for Lua

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Orbit is an MVC web framework for Lua. Orbit is free and open source software. The project is not under active development.

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Development Tools

Luvit – Node.JS for the Lua Inventor

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Luvit is a collection of packages and modules implements a node.js style API for the luvi/lit runtime.

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Development Tools

Turbo – framework built for LuaJIT 2

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Turbo is a framework built for LuaJIT 2 to simplify the task of building fast and scalable network applications.

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Development Tools

Lapis – web framework for Lua/MoonScript supporting OpenResty or http.server

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Lapis is a framework for building web applications using MoonScript or Lua that runs inside of a customized version of Nginx called OpenResty.

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Development Tools

OpenResty – turns Nginx into a Full-Fledged Scriptable Web Platform

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

OpenResty is a full-fledged web application server. It bundles the standard Nginx core, 3rd-party Nginx modules, and external dependencies.

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Development Tools

Sailor – Lua MVC web framework

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Sailor is a Lua MVC web framework. It is compatible with Apache with mod_lua or mod_pLua, Nginx with ngx_lua, Lwan, Lighttpd with mod_magnet.

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Platform Games

Mr. Rescue – arcade styled 2d action game

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Mr. Rescue is an arcade styled 2D action game centered around evacuating civilians from burning buildings.

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Static Site Generators

Luapress – simple and fast static site/blog generator

October 27, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Luapress is yet another static site generator, written in Lua, with posts in Markdown.

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