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Kong/kong

🦍 The API and AI Gateway

Stack

Lua pytest Cargo Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-gateway #api-gateway #api-management #apis #artificial-intelligence

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-17
History: 19 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 222 open

44,275

stars

Forks: 5,237
Commits: 11,280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +16 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +4 0.0%

Website GitHub

apache/apisix

The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

AI dev

Stack

Lua Express gRPC Go Spring Boot Svelte Go modules Maven npm

GitHub topics

#ai-gateway #api #api-gateway #api-management #apisix #cloud-native

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-10
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 256 open

17,201

stars

Forks: 2,962
Commits: 5,208 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ntop/ntopng

Web-based Traffic and Cybersecurity Network Traffic Monitoring

AI dev

Stack

Lua CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#cybersecurity #docker #ebpf #ipfix #kubernetes #netflow

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-30
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 302 open

8,179

stars

Forks: 766
Commits: 27,941 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

olimorris/codecompanion.nvim

✨ AI Coding, Vim Style

AI dev

Stack

Lua Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#acp #agent #agent-client-protocol #anthropic #claude-code #copilot

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-27
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 15 open

6,846

stars

Forks: 452
Commits: 3,026 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lsyncd/lsyncd

Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

Stack

Lua CMake

Updated: 2024-11-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 181 open

6,066

stars

Forks: 476
Commits: 926 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

CorsixTH/CorsixTH

Open source clone of Theme Hospital

Stack

Lua CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#game #opensource #remake #strategy-game #theme-hospital

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-07-24
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 251 open

4,555

stars

Forks: 428
Commits: 5,698 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason

Main game repository for Beyond All Reason.

AI dev

Stack

Lua

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 772 open

4,202

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 30,853 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jackMort/ChatGPT.nvim

ChatGPT Neovim Plugin: Effortless Natural Language Generation with OpenAI's ChatGPT API

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#chatgpt #neovim #nvim-plugin #openai

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 112 open

3,995

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 202 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

tarantool/tarantool

Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance.

AI dev

Stack

Lua CMake pip

GitHub topics

#appserver #database #disk #in-memory #lua #msgpack

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-12
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,776 open

3,671

stars

Forks: 426
Commits: 20,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

skywind3000/z.lua

:zap: A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#autojump #bash #cd #fasd #fish #fishshell

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 75 open

3,149

stars

Forks: 149
Commits: 524 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

snabbco/snabb

Snabb: Simple and fast packet networking

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#luajit #networking #nfv-framework #userspace-driver #userspace-networking

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-08
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 15 open

3,032

stars

Forks: 297
Commits: 10,332 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio

Lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, remote debugger, and code analyzer; supports Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, LuaJIT and other Lua interpreters on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#debugger #editor #ide #lua #lua-engines #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-03
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 111 open

2,771

stars

Forks: 520
Commits: 4,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

milanglacier/minuet-ai.nvim

💃 Dance with Intelligence in Your Code. Minuet offers code completion as-you-type from popular LLMs including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Ollama, Llama.cpp, Codestral, and more.

AI dev

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#ai #code-completion #llm #neovim #neovim-plugin

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-07-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

1,400

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 466 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hawkthorne/hawkthorne-journey

Digital Estate Planning: The Game

Stack

Lua npm pip

Updated: 2024-11-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-20
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 27 open

1,151

stars

Forks: 450
Commits: 5,564 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zevv/lsofgraph

lsof to graphviz

Stack

Lua

Updated: 2019-04-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-08
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 0 open

1,025

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 31 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K

Open source RTS game running on the Spring/Recoil engine

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #game #gamedev #lua #modding #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-06
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,265 open

827

stars

Forks: 253
Commits: 20,763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

frankroeder/parrot.nvim

parrot.nvim 🦜 - the plugin that brings stochastic parrots to Neovim.

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#anthropic #chatgpt #claude-3-5-sonnet #gemini #gemini-api #gpt

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-18
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8 open

792

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 846 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Planimeter/game-engine-2d

Planimeter Game Engine 2D - LÖVE-based game engine for Lua

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#2d-game-engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #grid-sdk #love2d

Updated: 2022-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

751

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

TACC/Lmod

Lmod: An Environment Module System based on Lua, Reads TCL Modules, Supports a Software Hierarchy

Stack

Lua pip

GitHub topics

#environment-modules #hpc #lmod #lua #tacc #xsede

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-15
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 27 open

616

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 8,508 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Bryley/neoai.nvim

Neovim plugin for intracting with GPT models from OpenAI

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#chatgpt #gpt #gpt-4 #gpt3-turbo #neovim #neovim-plugin

Updated: 2025-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

568

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 44 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hedgewars/hw

Official Hedgewars mirror for GitHub!

Stack

Lua Cargo CMake

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-08-21
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

567

stars

Forks: 131
Commits: 15,899 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ViridianGames/U7Revisited

A replacement engine for Ultima VII The Black Gate (and eventually Serpent Isle) that presents a new camera angle and other improvements.

Stack

Lua CMake .NET SDK Meson

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-25
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 16 open

501

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 1,064 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

snikket-im/snikket-server

Image builder for Snikket server

Stack

Lua

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-31
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 61 open

466

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 555 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

apioak/apioak

Full Lifecycle Management API Gateway.

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #apigateway #apioak #apis #cloud-native #dynamic-upstream

Updated: 2026-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

416

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gsuuon/model.nvim

Neovim plugin for interacting with LLM's and building editor integrated prompts.

Stack

Lua Pipenv

GitHub topics

#ai #chatgpt #llm #neovim #neovim-plugin #nvim

Updated: 2025-07-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

400

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 676 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Andrettin/Wyrmsun

Strategy game based on history, mythology and fiction

Stack

Lua CMake

Updated: 2025-04-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-05
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 36 open

332

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 7,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CogentRedTester/mpv-scripts

A collection of scripts for mpv player

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#commands #cycle #editions #ftp #mpv #mpv-player

Updated: 2026-01-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-10-30
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

300

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ValyriaTear/ValyriaTear

Open Source J-RPG (Based on the Hero of Allacrost engine)

Stack

Lua CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-15
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 36 open

255

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 3,475 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tl-open-source/tl-ops-manage

api-gateway, framework for service management based on openresty。balance, health-check, limit-fuse, waf, 负载均衡，健康检查，服务熔断，服务限流，动态配置，数据统计, waf过滤，黑白名单，基于openresty的API网关

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #balance #health-check #limiter #lua #openresty

Updated: 2023-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

253

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

solarus-games/zsdx

This repository was moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/solarus-games/zsdx

Archived

Stack

Lua CMake

Updated: 2018-04-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-01-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

197

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 2,058 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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