Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua – CloudFlare blog
Nginx+Lua is a self-contained web server embedding the scripting language Lua. Powerful applications can be written directly inside Nginx without using cgi, fastcgi, or uwsgi. By adding a little Lua code to an existing Nginx configuration file, it is easy to add small features.
AndroLua is the Lua interpreter ported to the Android platform. Others have ported Lua to Android, but this project is special:
it includes LuaJava, so you can access (almost) everything the Android API provides
because writing code on the soft keyboard can be hard, you can connect to it using TCP an upload code from your computer
Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the popular Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has been proven very stable and efficient on the top 100 websites, including taobao.com and tmall.com.
LOOP: Lua Object-Oriented Programming
LOOP stands for Lua Object-Oriented Programming and is a set of packages for supporting different models of object-oriented programming in the Lua language. In fact, Lua is not an object-oriented language nor it was intended to be because one of the main goals of Lua is to remain simple and small. However, it provides facilities as syntactic sugar to support an object-oriented programming style. Additionally, the extension mechanisms of Lua can be used to implement most of the traditional object-oriented concepts commonly available in other languages.
LuaInterface is a library for bridging the Lua language and Microsoft .NET platform’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). LuaInterface is a full consumer of the Common Language Specification (CLS), so Lua scripts can use LuaInterface to instantiate CLR objects, access their properties, call their methods, and even handle their events with Lua functions.
Concurrency Oriented Programming in Lua
A system that provides Erlang-style concurrency has been designed and implemented for the Lua programming language. This model of concurrency brings an alternative to what scripting languages have to offer today for concurrent and distributed programming.
Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A, formerly known as Android Scripting Environment or ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to get things done.
Lunatic Python is a two-way bridge between Python and Lua, allowing these languages to intercommunicate. Being two-way means that it allows Lua inside Python, Python inside Lua, Lua inside Python inside Lua, Python inside Lua inside Python, and so on.
LuaInterface is a library for integration between the Lua language and Microsoft .NET platform’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). Lua scripts can use it to instantiate CLR objects, access properties, call methods, and even handle events with Lua functions.
LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1. The virtual machine (VM) is API- and ABI-compatible to the standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
LuaJIT offers more performance, at the expense of portability. It currently runs on all popular operating systems based on x86 or x64 CPUs (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). Other platforms will be supported in the future, based on user demand and sponsoring.
GameDev.net – Using Lua with C#
Embedding Lua into C# with LuaInterface is so easy that it’s almost embarrassing. The wrapper takes care of most everything and exposes a very easy to work with API.
Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of language implementations in various stages of completion, including Tcl, Javascript, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, PHP, Python, Perl 6, APL, and a .NET bytecode translator.
LuaThread: Multi-(platform|threading) support for the Lua language
LuaThread enables the Lua programmer to create preemptive, concurrent Lua programs, in which several threads of execution coordinately perform different tasks in parallel. The library runs both on Unix systems supporting the Pthreads standard and on Win32 systems (natively).
The functionality is provided in two parts: routines needed by Lua core to control parallel access to its internal structures and, independently, functions providing Lua scripts with the ability to create and synchronize multiple threads of execution.
lua-users wiki: Filters Sources And Sinks
Certain operations can be implemented in the form of filters. A filter is a function that processes data received in consecutive function calls, returning partial results chunk by chunk. Filters become even more powerful when we allow them to be chained together to create composite filters. Filters can be seen as middle nodes in a chain of data transformations. Sources and sinks are the corresponding end points of these chains. A source is a function that produces data, chunk by chunk, and a sink is a function that takes data, chunk by chunk. In this technical note, we define an elegant interface for filters, sources, sinks and chaining.
Functional programming patterns in Lua
Lua Style Guide
A good common sense style guide for LUA
lua-functional provides a set of higher-order functions typically found in functional languages.
Here’s how to implement map-reduce in Lua
Kepler is an open source platform that brings the power of Lua to web development. There are a number of great Web development platforms out there but none balances portability, size, power and extensibility quite like Kepler does
Lua for Windows: A batteries included Lua installation on Windows.
Lua for Windows (LfW) combines Lua binaries, Lua libraries with a Lua-capable editor in a single install package for the Microsoft Windows operating system. LfW contains everything you need to write, run and debug Lua scripts on Windows. A wide variety of libraries and examples are included that are ready to use with Microsoft Windows. LfW runs on Windows 2000 and newer versions of Windows. Lua and its associated libraries are also available for other operating systems, so most scripts will be automatically cross-platform.
Following is a list of pages with sample code. Types of code include standalone reusable functions/classes, reusable modules, example code illustrating the use of other modules, tutorials on using other modules, full programs, and design patterns.
This is a whole pile of Lua source codes and tutorials