L5 is a fun, fast, cross-platform, and lightweight implementation of the Processing API in Lua. It is a free and open source coding library to make interactive artwork on the computer, aimed at artists, designers, and anyone that wants a flexible way to prototype art, games, toys, and other software experiments in code.

L5 is designed to work cross-platform, including on desktop, phone, and tablet. Beyond running fast on modern machines, L5 is optimized for older and lower-powered devices, minimizing resource usage to keep creative coding accessible to everyone. This helps with our goal of building resilient, long-lasting software projects. L5 is built in Lua, a robust but lightweight, long-running, lightning-fast, extensible language.

a standalone runtime for Luau, a la Node.js or Deno

Lua Pattern Tester: build, test & debug lua patterns

Like regex101 for lua patterns

lpm is a package manager for Lua, written in Lua.

interesting history of lua

note: does not cover lua 5+

How to get the current directory from a lua module

single file distributable web server