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24 alternatives to A console-based editor with Lua support, based on antirez's project

A minimal text-editor with lua scripting. Contribute to skx/kilua development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a console-based text editor that includes Lua scripting support, built on antirez's original project. It runs in the terminal and allows users to write and edit code or text files with the ability to extend… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A console-based editor with Lua support, based on antirez's project launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A lightweight text editor written in Lua. Contribute to rxi/lite development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kraa 1.0▲359

    Hi HN! Excited to share the public beta of Kraa – a web-based markdown editor. It's aiming to be distraction-free and has strong separation of the document's styling from the experience of writing it — while still alowing for rich customization. Example of a leaf with custom styles: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary Curious about your feedback in hopes of improving Kraa before the planned launch later this year.

    Dec 2025 · kraa.io · its alternatives →

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    A terminal-based text editor written in Rust. Contribute to gchp/iota development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I have been developing this editor, Ki, for over a year, and have employed it substantially in all kinds of development (including Ki itself) for at least 3 months. I think it is mostly crystallized, thus I'm happy to share it with you today. Its main strength is first-class multi-cursor and structural (syntax) editing, which is a rare combination in the realm of editors (TUI or GUI alike). Hope you'll enjoy it!

    2024 · ki-editor.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Lua Text Adventure Engine. Contribute to shawndumas/adventure.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lua in Python. Contribute to scoder/lupa development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, clx is an ahead-of-time compiler for standard Lua that generates C++20 and produces standalone native executables through GCC, Clang or MSVC. The project started as an experiment to see whether modern C++ could be used as a portable compiler backend instead of LLVM or direct machine code generation. The generated code is then compiled and optimized by the host toolchain. The latest release replaces the previous NaN-tagged value representation with a new shadow-types implementation, adds full int64 support, improves native arithmetic code generation and adds ARM64 macOS coroutine…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Completely managed .NET Lua. Contribute to frabert/NetLua development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lua with C/C++/Java/Javascript syntax. Contribute to mingodad/ljs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create and try terminal interfaces with Lua.

    7d ago · uji.sh · its alternatives →

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    Maybe you should use https://github.com/fiatjaf/flua instead of this - fiatjaf/glua

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit written primarily in Rust, with API support for multiple programming languages such as C++ and JavaScript. It is designed for desktop and embedded usage. The Slint website has just been redesigned. And we added a new Royalty-Free License option besides GPL and commercial

    2023 · slint.dev · its alternatives →

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    Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, script language.

    2024 · lua.org · its alternatives →

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    blogging klipse Lua Wasm live examples code snippets

    2017 · blog.klipse.tech · its alternatives →

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    A gameboy emulator written in pure Lua. Work in progress. - zeta0134/LuaGB

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LuaJIT 2.0 and 2.1 bytecode generator, assembler, parser, viewer and test VM. Lua 5.1 parser, IDE and debugger. - rochus-keller/LjTools

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lisp is Lisp. Lua is Lua. Lisp and Lua as One. Contribute to meric/l2l development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    laboratório de integração Lua com libuv para execução de scripts assíncronos e experimentação de POCs - joaoneto/lua-libuv

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua. Contribute to xmake-io/xmake development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LuaCAD models solids in Lua rather than the OpenSCAD language, with operator overloading for CSG (`a + b`, `a - b`, `a * b`). It ships with a CLI and a desktop app, including a preview area and a text editor. I've always been a big fan of OpenSCAD, but the SCAD language itself is unfortunately quite cobbled-together and is a very poorly designed programming language. LuaCAD takes all the good parts of OpenSCAD and combines them with one of the best scripting languages. It has now completely replaced OpenSCAD for me, and I think it provides a better experience than OpenSCAD for all use cases.…

    Aug 2026 · luacad.ad-si.com · its alternatives →

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    Write programs on desktop and mobile

    2023 · akkartik.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    2019 · xmake.io · its alternatives →

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    Lua + SQLite + musl libc running on x86. Contribute to ers35/luakernel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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