awesome-nelua

A curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries, and software for the nelua programming language.

Contents

• awesome-nelua
  • General Purpose
  • Utility
  • Math
  • FFI
  • Parsing
  • Package Manager
  • Web
  • Networking
  • Games
  • Game Development
  • Graphics
  • Window and Input
  • IDE and Code Editor Support
  • Testing
  • Generating Documentation
  • Virtual Machines
  • Operating Systems
  • Live Development
  • Resources
  • Block Chain
  • Benchmarks
  • algorithms
  • Logging

General Purpose

• pancake-lib - General purpose library and tools for Nelua.

Utility

• fs - Cross platform file system library, you can use to manage files and directories.
• nelua-decl - C binding generator for Nelua using GCC the Lua plugin.
• backtrace - Provides a way to get trace backs at runtime, using the popular libbacktrace library.
• blockly-nelua - Blockly that generates Nelua.
• ini - ini bindings for nelua, Simple ini-file reader.

Math

• lua-bint - Small portable arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic library in pure Lua for computing with large integers.
• manthkit - a library for Vector, Quaternion and Matrices math.
• nelua-mpfr - Bindings of the GNU MPFR library, MPFR - C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding.

FFI

• FFI - Cross platform FFI for Nelua, you can use it to load symbols from shared libraries.

Parsing

• lpegrex - Parse programming languages syntax into an AST using PEGs with ease (LPeg Extension).
• json - Parse JSON into Nelua records, made in pure Nelua.

Package Manager

• pancake-pm - Simple pancake manager for Nelua.

Web

• nelua-webview-demo - An example using Nelua for WebView apps.

Networking

• NeluaWS - Simple webSocket program written in Nelua.
• http - http bindings for nelua, http - Basic HTTP protocol implementation over sockets (no https).

Games

• antcopter - 2D speed run platformer game made for the WASM4 Game Jam
• Alpinist VS The Alien Invasion in Mount Roraima - Game made for IGDFE Game Jam 2 made using Nene.
• nelua-game2048 - Clone of the 2048 game in Nelua using Raylib.
• nelua-tetris - Tetris game clone in Nelua with Raylib.
• Castle Escape - Game made for Baixada Game Jam, written in Nelua using Raylib.
• Game Of Life in Arduino - Game of Life coded in Arduino with Nelua.
• Cesleste - Celeste game clone in Nelua using SDL2.
• nelua-Ping-Pong - Ping Pong game in Nelua using Raylib.
• shoot-the-red - A game where you are a square and you have to shoot a red square.
• jogabilijogo-2021 - Game for Jogabilijam 4
• o-terrivel-jogo-da-perna-cabeluda-mirror - "a very weird game"

Game Development

• nene - Tiny game library built around SDL2 and it's extension libraries, written in Nelua.
• wasm4 - Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.
• zlnl - A minimalist RPG game engine made in nelua for c99.
• Rotor-nelua - Rotor is a set of libraries for doing ECS in Nelua.
• irene - A collection of systems and components for Rotor-nelua.
• nelua-raylib - Raylib 4.0 bindings for nelua, raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
• raylib-nelua - Raylib 3.5 wrapper for nelua.
• tigr - TIGR bindings for nelua, TIGR - the TIny GRaphics library for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
• sigil - Bindings of sigil for nelua, SIGIL - A very simple cross-platform library for playing audio, handling basic input, and drawing 2D graphics.
• FWK - FWK bindings for nelua, FWK - 3D game framework.
• SFML - SFML bindings for nelua, SFML - It is a simple, fast, cross-platform and object-oriented multimedia API. It provides access to windowing, graphics, audio and network.

Graphics

• marcherstein3d - Realtime pseudo 3D raycaster on the CPU using 2D ray marching.
• nelua-raytracing - Tiny raytracing that fits on a business card.
• nprof - Very basic profiler for raylib-nelua.

Window and Input

• Xinput - Xinput bindings for nelua, Xinput - API enables applications to receive input from the Xbox Controller for Windows.

IDE and Code Editor Support

• ta-nelua - Nelua module for Textadept.
• nelua-lsp - Langauge server plugin for nelua.
• nelua-vscode - Nelua syntax highlighting for Visual Studio Code.
• nelua-sublime - Nelua syntax highlighting for Sublime Text.
• nelua-lite-xl - Nelua syntax highliting for Lite-xl.
• nelua.vim - Nelua syntax highlighting for Vim.
• micro-nelua-plugin - Nelua syntax highliting and linter for the micro text editor.
• nelua-highlight - Small syntax highlighter for nelua in vs-code.

Testing

• Lester - Lester is a minimal unit testing framework for Lua with a focus on being simple to use.
• nester - Minimal unit testing framework inspired by lester.

Generating Documentation

• nldoc - Tool to generate documentation for Nelua source files.

Virtual Machines

• riscvm - Tiny RISC-V virtual machine written in Nelua.

Operating Systems

• nelua-osdev - An Operating System written in nelua.
• stivale2-nelua - stivale2 module for Nelua.

Live Development

• luamon - Live development utility for Lua inspired by nodemon.
• forkmoon - Watch for file changes and auto restart an application using fork checkpoints to continue the process (for quick live development).

Resources

• nelua-by-example - A tutorial for Nelua, based on examples.
• nelua-samples - Some sample applications write in Nelua.
• nelua-tutorials - Nelua tutorials written in markdown files.
• aoc202 - Solutions of Advent of Code in Nelua.
• lunray - Ray tracing experiment in Nelua.
• aoc - Advent Of Code solution in nelua.
• Nelua-PS2-Hello - Hello World in Nelua, but for the PS2.

Block Chain

• NeChain - A Single File Blockchain written in Nelua.

Benchmarks

• nelua-benchmarks - Benchmarks for comparing efficiency of Nelua with Lua, LuaJIT and C.
• realist - SDL2 raytracer + benchmark for Rust, Nelua, Nim, C, C++, Odin, V, Go.

algorithms

• algorithm.nelua - Contains various algorithms to be used in containers, such as sort and stable sort.

Logging

• log.nelua - A Minimal, Small, and Simple logging library written in nelua.