See also:

• Computers: Programming: Development Tools  (232)
• Computers: Programming: Games  (167)

• LuaForge   - Hosts over 200 open source projects, over 500 registered users; much of the Lua community is here; GForge installation; free repository for project management, categorization, issue tracking; descriptions, news, downloads, links, site statistics.

• CGILua - Uses Lua as server-side scripting language to make dynamic Webpages. Supports pure Lua scripts and HTML templates, which can be handled via CGI, FastCGI, mod_lua, ISAPI, and other APIs.
• CPB - Lua to C/C++ binding library. Open source, free.
• Decoda - A Lua IDE and graphical debugger with source code control (SCC) support, syntax highlighting.
• Doris - Lua binding to OpenGL graphics API and GLUI OpenGL widget set. Open source, GPL.
• Kepler Project - Lua Web development platform, has CGILua, LuaSQL, and other libraries, open source and binary distributions.
• Ldb - Lua debugger. Free for academic, non profit use.
• Lua Cheia - Lua distribution with many useful libraries, that can be loaded dynamically, or built into the interpreter. Makes Lua more usable as stand-alone language.
• Lua Player - Script player for Sony PSP; makes writing games for PSP somewhat easier.
• Luabind - Library to make bindings between C++ and Lua; description, manual, links. Rasterbar Software. Open source, MIT license.
• LuaEdit - Lua 5.0 IDE, debugger, script editor: syntax highlighting, completion proposal list, parameter proposition engine, advance breakpoint management, watches, project oriented management, lists functions, variables (global, local).
• LuaJava - Scripting tool for Java; lows scripts coded in Lua manage components coded in Java, with no need for declarations or any kind of preprocessing.
• LuaJIT - Just-in-time (JIT) compiler for Lua. [Open source, MIT/X license]
• Lua.NET - Project integrates Lua with Common Language Infrastructure, a framework for language interoperability.
• LuaSocket - Lua extension library; gives support for TCP and UDP transport layers within Lua.
• Plua - Port of Lua 4.0, plus a small IDE, for PalmOS handheld devices.
• PowerBLua - PowerBASIC wrapper for calling Lua functions.
• TkLua - Tk to Lua binding. Freeware.
• toLua - Simplifies integrating C/C++ code with Lua, automatically generates binding code to access C/C++ features from Lua; maps C/C++ constants, external variables, functions, classes, and methods to Lua, via Lua API and tag method facilities. Freeware.