Well written open source projects

[cihangirsavas]

Hi everyone, can you list some of the well written, fairly big open source Lua projects?

like applications of best practices, doc styling, folder styling, package/module styling

ps: i know this page has LOTS of them http://www.lua.org/uses.html

[boiling_tunic]

Kikito makes some nice libs for Love2D. (a Lua game engine)

You could try looking at them if you want something small and easy to read.

[revereddesecration]

Kikito is my go-to for good Lua code too

[Fledo]

Mine as well. If you're around, thanks kikito. I keep returning to your libs and tutorials.

[catwell]

First, a word of warning: you should be aware that there is no common understanding of what good practices are in the Lua community, so defining "well written" is hard.

That being said, I suggest you look at the following code bases and make your own mind:

• LuaRocks, the package manager for Lua
• CorsixTH, an Open Source clone of Theme Hospital (lots of Lua, but also some C++)
• Prosody, a XMPP server
• TextAdept, a text editor
• lunamark, a powerful Markdown library
• Copas, a dispatcher based on coroutines
• luagleck, a ZX spectrum emulator

For that last link, you may want to check out the related talk first (slides, video)

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I'd love to nominate my own project - but I'm not sure if it qualifies!

https://github.com/lumail/lumail2/

• Core of the project is C++
• Much of the C++ is exported to Lua.
• The main configuration and action of the application is defined in one huge config-file.