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neovim/neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script CMake

GitHub topics

#api #c #lua #neovim #nvim #text-editor

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 19 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,975 open

103,016

stars

Forks: 7,191
Commits: 38,482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +38 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +80 +0.2%

Website GitHub

cocos2d/cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cocos2d #cocos2d-x #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2025-05-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-06
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1,604 open

19,212

stars

Forks: 7,044
Commits: 37,362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods pip

GitHub topics

#automation #hammerspoon #irc #lua #macos #mjolnir

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-02
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 694 open

16,177

stars

Forks: 720
Commits: 6,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spotify/annoy

Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #c-plus-plus #golang #locality-sensitive-hashing #lua #nearest-neighbor-search

Updated: 2025-10-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-20
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 90 open

14,312

stars

Forks: 1,227
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nmap/nmap

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #c-plus-plus #libpcap #linux #lua #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-11
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 698 open

13,712

stars

Forks: 2,911
Commits: 13,831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

luanti-org/luanti

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp17 #game-engine #lua #luanti #minetest

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,513 open

13,709

stars

Forks: 2,481
Commits: 13,796 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heroiclabs/nakama

Scalable open-source game backend server: multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards, chat, and social features for games.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#backend #cpp #csharp #dotnet #game #game-backend

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 121 open

13,491

stars

Forks: 1,500
Commits: 1,848 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

alibaba/tengine

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

Stack

GitHub topics

#forward-proxy #health-check #http3 #kubernetes-ingress #load-balancer #lua

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-28
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 502 open

13,384

stars

Forks: 2,508
Commits: 2,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brndnmtthws/conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js React Tailwind CSS Bun CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cairo #conky #imlib2 #linux #lua

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 95 open

8,493

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 4,652 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

silverbulletmd/silverbullet

The malleable knowledge base for you and your team. Powered by Markdown and Lua.

Stack

TypeScript Axum React Vite Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#end-user-programming #knowledge-management #lua #markdown #note-taking #personal-knowledge-management

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 364 open

6,332

stars

Forks: 515
Commits: 3,918 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

PlotJuggler/PlotJuggler

The Time Series Visualization Tool that you deserve.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Conan npm

GitHub topics

#chart #csv #labstreaminglayer #lua #mqtt #plot

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-04-23
History: 1 history point
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 68 open

6,254

stars

Forks: 831
Commits: 620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mpvnet-player/mpv.net

🎞 mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio-player #command-line #dotnet #ffmpeg #gui #javascript

Updated: 2026-02-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-08-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 156 open

5,411

stars

Forks: 219
Commits: 1,211 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kaitai-io/kaitai_struct

Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby / Rust

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #csharp #declarative-language #file-format #go

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-20
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 531 open

4,697

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 1,049 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spring/spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #lua #opengl #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2024-03-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,992

stars

Forks: 866
Commits: 28,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

version-fox/vfox

A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Golang, Python, Flutter, .NET & more

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Vite Vue Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#asdf #bash #cli #cmd #cross-platform #development-tools

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-09
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

3,990

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 639 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

domoticz/domoticz

Free open source home automation system for Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi. Supports Z-Wave, Zigbee, MQTT, and 150+ devices.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#cpp #domoticz #dzvents #energy-monitoring #home-automation #html5

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 24 open

3,803

stars

Forks: 1,159
Commits: 16,240 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 439 open

3,391

stars

Forks: 364
Commits: 14,098 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

widelands/widelands

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #bsd #c-plus-plus #cmake #floss #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-02-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 568 open

3,054

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 27,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

xyproto/algernon

Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, TypeScript, npm-less React 19, SQLite, and PostgreSQL support ++

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#algernon #build-less #cross-platform #fasthttp #go #http3

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-10
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 18 open

3,031

stars

Forks: 149
Commits: 2,903 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website 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

rspamd/rspamd

Rapid spam filtering system.

AI dev

Stack

C FastAPI CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#c #email #lua #rspamd #spam-filter

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 307 open

2,539

stars

Forks: 484
Commits: 24,285 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Overload-Technologies/Overload

3D game engine with lua scripting

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #3d-graphics #c-plus-plus #cpp #game-editor #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 107 open

2,495

stars

Forks: 290
Commits: 620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Komodo/KomodoEdit

Komodo Edit is a fast and free multi-language code editor. Written in JS, Python, C++ and based on the Mozilla platform.

Stack

Python .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#activestate #cross-platform #debugger #debugger-visualizer #editor #go

Updated: 2023-11-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-24
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,189 open

2,202

stars

Forks: 301
Commits: 14,756 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

NatLabRockies/api-umbrella

Open source API management platform

Stack

Ruby Bundler Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #api-management #api-manager #lua #luajit #nginx

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 256 open

2,197

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 5,365 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

stepmania/stepmania

Advanced rhythm game for Windows, Linux and OS X. Designed for both home and arcade use.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game #lua #rhythm-game #stepmania

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-10-18
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 573 open

2,110

stars

Forks: 480
Commits: 36,144 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fishfolk/jumpy

Tactical 2D shooter in fishy pixels style. Made with Rust-lang 🦀 and Bevy 🪶

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #editor #fish-game #game #lua #modding

Updated: 2026-01-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-06-23
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 80 open

1,877

stars

Forks: 132
Commits: 1,187 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

multitheftauto/mtasa-blue

Multi Theft Auto is a game engine that turns Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into networked multiplayer.

AI dev

Stack

C++ .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#cpp #game #game-engine #game-mod #gaming #grand-theft-auto

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-11-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,064 open

1,875

stars

Forks: 597
Commits: 11,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

axmolengine/axmol

Open-source C++ game engine with Lua for 2D and 3D games across mobile, desktop, WebAssembly, and Xbox (UWP).

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #axmol #cocos2d-x #cpp23 #cppwinrt

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

1,481

stars

Forks: 302
Commits: 5,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS

HLE 3DS emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#3ds #android #arm #c-plus-plus #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-15
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 67 open

1,404

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 2,528 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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