The dev-lua category contains libraries, utilities or bindings written in or for the Lua programming language.
| busted | Elegant Lua unit testing |
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| dkjson | David Kolf's JSON module for Lua |
| lanes | lightweight, native, lazy evaluating multithreading library |
| ldoc | A LuaDoc-compatible documentation generation system |
| lgi | Lua bindings using gobject-introspection |
| lpeg | Parsing Expression Grammars for Lua |
| lua-cjson | A fast JSON encoding/parsing module for Lua |
| lua-openssl | OpenSSL binding for Lua |
| lua-term | Terminal functions for Lua |
| lua-zlib | Lua bindings to zlib |
| lua_cliargs | A command-line argument parser. |
| LuaBitOp | Bit Operations Library for the Lua Programming Language |
| luacov | LuaCov is a simple coverage analyzer for Lua scripts |
| luacrypto | Lua frontend to OpenSSL |
| luadbi | DBI module for Lua |
| luadoc | LuaDoc is a documentation tool for Lua source code |
| luaevent | libevent bindings for Lua |
| luaexpat | LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library |
| luafilesystem | File System Library for the Lua Programming Language |
| luajson | JSON Parser/Constructor for Lua |
| lualdap | Simple interface from Lua to OpenLDAP |
| luaossl | Most comprehensive OpenSSL module in the Lua universe. |
| luaposix | Bindings for POSIX APIs |
| luarocks | A deployment and management system for Lua modules |
| luasec | Lua binding for OpenSSL library to provide TLS/SSL communication |
| luasocket | Networking support library for the Lua language |
| luassert | Lua Assertions Extension |
| luasystem | platform independent system calls for lua |
| lutok | Lightweight C++ API library for Lua |
| luvit | Takes node.js' architecture and dependencies and fits it in the Lua language |
| mediator_lua | Event handling through channels |
| messagepack | A pure Lua implementation of the MessagePack serialization format |
| mpack | Lua bindings for libmpack |
| penlight | Lua utility libraries loosely based on the Python standard libraries |
| say | Lua String Hashing/Indexing Library |
| toluapp | A tool to integrate C/C++ code with Lua |